Does the Parole System Work?

into his ex-wife’s apartment, drunk and holding a loaded .303 Savage-a

12-gauge shotgun. Upon seeing another man in the apartment by the name

of Mr. John Mitchell, Fricker fires a shot to his chest and instantly

kills the innocent man. Without having ever met Mitchell before,

Fricker had declared that the man “deserved it for fooling around with

my wife behind my back? Four months after the event, Fricker was

sentenced to five years in prison on a charge of manslaughter. After

serving a year, Fricker was eligible for a parole hearing after

receiving an evaluation from a psychiatrist, who was unable to find any

evidence of psychiatric disorder. He briskly walks into a small white

room in the administration center of the Drumheller medium-security

prison located northeast of Calgary. With his small beady eyes, he

fixes a stare across the room where five people are seated, patiently

waiting for the hearing to begin. The five people consist of a prison

staff member, a parole officer and three members of the National Parole

Board. Fricker quickly seats himself into the wooden chair and reveals

a slight European accent as he introduces himsel

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