When the prisoners were asked whether they would forfeit the money they had earned up to that time if they were to be paroled, most said yes.
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Changes in theparolesystem were promised so that serious offenders would serve a longer proportion of their time in jail.
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Structuralist divisions of language, such as signifier/signified or langue/parole, would fall into this notion of the said.
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After serving a sentence for perjury, for example, she is warned by the prison matron against violating herparole.
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The first sense of "parole" is that of a prisoner in jail, reflecting an attitude toward the boarding school as a prison.
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Long-term prisoners are used to playing the game, to being assessed to see if they meritparoleor downgrading.
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Using fictitious languages, they confronted listeners with that of which 'parole' were enjoined not to speak in polite society.
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One prisoner even developed a psychosomatic rash all over his entire body when he learned that hisparolerequest had been turned down.
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Paroleseems at first sight a highly chivalric, even quixotic, institution.
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The roll call was a lengthy one: fines, probation,parole, community service, compensation, reparation, suspended sentences.
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They also tightened theparolesystem and revamped the courts to allow crimes with penalties of less than ten years to be judged summarily.
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To him no clear distinction between langue andparolecould be drawn: the two were inseparably connected.
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State and federal governments revised their criminal codes, effectively abolishingparole, imposing mandatory minimum sentences, and allowing juveniles to be incarcerated in adult prisons.
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Of these 13,000 additional candidates, about 7,500 adults and about 2,700 young offenders might be paroled each year.
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Of the 5,180 paroled altogether, 3,851 were on licence for less than one year.
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Collocationswithparole
parole
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chance of parole
He was then sentenced to life in prison with nochanceofparolefor at least 25 years.
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early parole
The chances of anyone convicted of serious violence being grantedearlyparole, for example, are pretty slim.
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parole hearing
The story is told in flashbacks, beginning with a 1958parolehearing.
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