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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1956)
iHScc. II) Statesman, Salctn, Ore., Thurr, May 101 58 Public Idea Of Parolees Irks Director 'IT FAIT W. HAKVET JR. - AmdiM Freea Writer . ; H. M. RandaH state parole di rector for the part 12 yean, li proud of the state parole system. Pa geta iipset whea he hu to take the rap for crimes committed by torn who aren't oa parole. He believes the public doesnl Inow what parole b, and he sus pects that It doesn't care. . Seventy per cent of the state prison convicts are released at the end of their sentences. Tbey have M supervision after their release. H they commit further crimes, it tnn't the parole board's responsi bility. .- . .The other 30 per cent o out on parole. They stay on parole until their sentences expire. The parole board finds them Jobs, glides them along the straight and nar row path, and counsels them in their family and other problems. aWard Ge4 ' : Since the present parole system . started io 1KB, a total of 4,562 men have been paroled. The pa , role, board hu revoked the pa roles of 284 per cent of these men. .. : : Randall thinks that's s ' good record. But what provokes him Is that (he public blames the board whea men, who are not on parole, com- - mlt serious crimes. He says a lot af people think all ex-convicts are parolees. -Take the case of Billy Junior Kunn, for instsnce. He Is charged witn slaying 14-year-old boy near Hertford.- : i y Nun . wu paroled in 1953. His sentence was csmplsted last March, meaning he no lonrer was under parole supervision. He had completed his time. , 1 j - free Aayway ! "Randan is catching an kinds of, (rouble over this crime but Nunn would have been free even if he kadnl been paroled. Of the men who have had their paroles revoked, half are brought back to prison for violating the terms of parole. Most parolees can t use Bauer, cant marry, caat leave tha state, and are prohibited fom associating with ex-convicts. - The ether half of the parolees no are brought back are m e n wtio have been charged with new Crimea. - There are St field officers for (be parole board. Tbey currently supervise 1.300 cases, including 160 former convicts, plus S3 persons who have been placed on probation by the circuit courts. - Another big chore of tha parole hoard la to make pre sentence investigstlons for tha Judges. Pearest Risk ' -The poorest risks among the pa rolees are tha check forgers. Since im the board hu paroled l.tts ieriera, and hu had to revoke the . Dsrolea of 48 J per cent of them. . ' Paroled sex offenders have good records, but the board doesa t grant many paroles to this type of Convict, ut ue 172 paroies gramea to men who have contrttuted to ' the delinquency of minors, only 14 per cent have been brought back V bile on parole. The figure la 15 per cent for all classes of offend- There have been lit paroled murders since 1939, and only a hive had their paroles revoked. AO S were brought back for tech nical violations or crimes other thai murder. Randall says the biggest prob lem is that of men with sentences p only one year. ' - The men with the short sen tences," he said, "are men that wo cant do anything for. There Just lsnt time to develop a pro gram for them. I'd like to see some of those shorter sentences made a little longer." He says it's much easier to find . fcbs for parolees than it wu 10 tears ago. rtae CeeperalUa '. "fit get fine cooperation from labor unions and employers. They even come to talk to the men at the prison before they go out on parole," Randall says. - "We have many men who make good on parole, but the public doesn't hear about them. It Just heart about the orangutangs who live us trouble." Asked for a few examples of parolees who made good, Randall recalled an habitual criminal who had served four sentences for for gery. He was paroled from a life sentence In 1944, and now is man ager of a truck company. - Then there to the holdup-slayer Kio once had been sentenced to ng. but whose sentence wu re ducer? to life. He's been out two -years nowr and la working hard as waiter. Baadtt Reforms An armed robber, who wu a ring-leader In prison revolts, has been out a year now, making good la the merchant marine as a sea man. And there's the little boy, who came to the prison when he waa only li He had murdered a girl. He's beea out a couple of years now, and is a technician tor business machines, v The parole board meets three I or four times a month to Inter view prisoners. Even with skilled help, the board has to be pretty sharp la deciding which convicts might make good on the outside. Members of the board are Charles H. 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