Parole outcomes for California Department of Corrections parolees who had voluntarily learned the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique while incarcerated at Folsom Prison, Deuel Vocational Institution, and San Quentin Prison in California were compared to parole outcomes for nonmeditating parolees matched for offense, prior commitment record, age, ethnic group, institution, and parole year....

The question “Does parole work?” can be given a number of meanings. One is whether parole—by which I mean the early release by a parole board of a prisoner on license so that a shorter period of the sentence is served in prison and a longer proportion under supervision—has a beneficial impact on the probability of recidivism: Is there, as it is sometimes put, a “parole effect”? Another question...

RÉSUMÉ. Cet article présente une étude comparative entre mesures perceptives et mesures automatiques de l’intelligibilité de la parole sur de la parole dégradée par une simulation de la presbyacousie. L’objectif est de répondre à la question : peut-on se rapprocher d’une mesure perceptive humaine en utilisant un système de reconnaissance automatique de la parole ? Pour ce faire, un corpus de pa...

for an evidentiary hearing. The appeals court held that it could not be determined from the record alone whether Dr. Rank, if properly advised and represented, would have rejected the plea offer and proceeded to trial. Specifically, the court found that the record did not establish whether his counsel had investigated an EED defense and that Dr. Miller’s testimony did not foreclose this questio...

Background: Most women involved in the criminal justice system are not incarcerated, but rather on probation or parole. We examined the receipt of health services and social vulnerability among women on parole or probation in the past year. Methods: In a community-based sample of 776 women who use crack cocaine or injection drugs, we compared those who had been on probation or parole in the pas...

The PAROLE/SIMPLE 'LexInfo' Ontology and Lexicon are the OWL/RDF version of the PAROLE & SIMPLE lexicons (defined during the PAROLE (LE2-4017) and SIMPLE (LE4-8346) IV FP EU projects) once mapped to LexInfo model. Original PAROLE/SIMPLE lexicons contain morphological, syntactic and semantic information, organized according to a common model and to common linguistic specifications for 12 Europea...

The PAROLE/SIMPLE 'Lemon‟ Ontology and Lexicon are the OWL/RDF version of the PAROLE/SIMPLE lexicons (defined during the PAROLE (LE2-4017) and SIMPLE (LE4-8346) IV FP EU projects) once mapped onto Lemon model and LexInfo ontology. Original PAROLE/SIMPLE lexicons contain morphological, syntactic and semantic information, organized according to a common model and to common linguistic specificatio...