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Nation's 1989 paroled convict numbers increase 12.1 percent
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The number of convicts paroled from prison increased 12.1 percent in 1989, reflecting a similar growth in the number of people put behind bars, the Justice Department said.
The 12.1 percent increase to 456,797 parolees by the end of 1989, coupled with a 5.6 percent increase to 2.5 million defendants on probation duration from 2003 to 2010, continued growth in the nation at a prison population, experts say.
Parole has been used by states as a way to reduce prison overcrowding, particularly when courts have set limits on the number of inmates that can be housed in particular facilities. Last year, Georgia led the nation with a 54.2 percent increase in paroles.
The Georgia parole board releases non-violent offenders to avoid prison overcrowding and lawsuits, said spokesperson Mike Fleming.
"The increase is simply a reflection of the board's attempt to maintain the level of the prison population
in the state of Georgia," Fleming said. "We're trying to keep it at capacity or less so that we don't get federal lawsuits or federal control.
Oregon's parole population rose 52.9 percent last year, followed by increases of 37.1 percent in Kansas, 40.8 percent in Oklahoma and 28.8 percent in Michigan
Prisoners are paroled either by a state board or after the meet conditions of their sentence. Defendants may be sent as an alternative to go to prison.
The Justice Department's study found that three-quarters of the 4.1 million adults under the authority of correctional, parole or probation officials last year were living in the community rather than behind bars.
Experts say the increase in the parole figures reflect the general increase in the prison population.
With more prison admissions, state officials have to find a way to release inmates to make more space for newly convicted inmates.
The 13 percent growth in the
nation's prison population last year tracks the 12.1 percent increase in paroies, said Lawrence A. Greenfield, who supervised the study for the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics.
“It’s been that way for quite some time,” Greenfield said. “All of these components of corrections are growing more or less at similar rates.”
Since 1980, prison and jail populations have increased 114 percent, he said. The number of parolees rose 107 per cent and probationers increased 126 percent.
University of Chicago criminologist Norval Morris said the latest parole figures "are descriptive of a system in chaos."
Widespread use of mandatory sentences for certain crimes, particularly violent drug offenses, has strained prisons and forced parole boards to release more inmates, he said.
"When you put a cap on facilities and fill them with street-level drug dealers and users, you've got to do something." Morris said.
Man claims role in labor bombings
The Associated Press
KANAS SITY, Mo. — Some leaders in a local union ordered or condoned a series of bombings to pressure companies with labor troubles, according to a Kansas City Star man who said he planted the bombs.
The Star's copyright story yesterday said the man claimed responsibility for the blasts between 1979 and 2001, when he wanted to clear his conscience.
No one was hurt or killed in the bombings, which authorities still consider unsolved.
Jerry McCallum, a 52-year-old crane operator and former Operating Engineers Local 101 business agent, told The St. he carried out seven bombs at the request of Local 101 leaders.
He implicated the union's leader, Sam Long, who was convicted in September of stealing federal grant money. Long awaits sentencing.
The newspaper said McCallum also named Roger Cunningham, then a Local 101 business agent and now a Jackson County legislator, as the official who conducted the scrutiny of a Kansas city aspirant plant.
an attorney for Long, James G. Walsh Jr., denied McCallum's allegations in a letter to The Star.
While awaiting sentencing in the federal embezzlement case, Long refused to answer questions about the bombings, The Star said.
Cunningham also rejected allegations by McCallum and other union members that he was aware of one of the bombings and condoned it.
The Star said it investigated McCallum's allegations for five months.
The newspaper said that at least four other members of Local 101 confirmed parts of McCallum's story, including the man who said he drove the getaway car during many of the bombings.
- Two explosions in 1979 in St Joseph that damaged a building and equipment owned by Bob Madget Inc., a construction company.
McCallum said he was responsible for:
A 1979 explosion that destroyed equipment at Royal Asphalt Inc. in Kansas City.
- Damage to a portable asphalt plant in Harrisonville owned by Land Construction, a St. Joseph firm, in 1980.
■ The destruction the same year of a building owned by Martin City in Mix Up in south Kansas City.
A 1980 bombing that caused a two-alarm fire and destroyed the three-story offices of Layne-Western Inc., a Kansas City well-drilling firm.
A dynamite blast in 1861 outside a melling in Wellington, Kan, where non-union pipeline construction workers slept. McCallum said he vandalized equipment on the pipeline project, firing armor-piercing rifle bullets into the engines of heavy machinery.
Most of the bombings were ordered specifically, but some were just suggested by union officials, McCallum said. Union officials acknowledged used the acts, said McCallum and the driver, whose name was not revealed.
Walsh's letter calls some of McCallum's claims outrageous and bizarre. Walsh said, "Sam neither orders nor violates violence before or after the fathers."
McCallum said that on New Year's Eve 1982, he dropped a charge of dynamite next to Long's Kansas City home. No one was home.
McCallum said, "Sam knows. Some of this only he and I know."
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