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Features The Post and Courier,
www.charleston.net.
Parole/Probation Issues
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
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Debbie Spry gently ran her hand
across her only son's grave marker, her eyes welling with tears as she stared at
his smiling photo. Travis had been such a big-hearted kid, just 17 when he was
strangled in Charleston for some car stereo speakers. Last year, Spry watched as
Travis' boyhood friend, who set him up for the killing, received a 13-year
sentence as an accessory to murder. Then, in utter disbelief, she found herself
fighting to keep him in prison after he became eligible for parole just 10
months later.
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Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
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Like many state
probation and parole agents, Kescia Holmes took the job hoping to make a
difference in people's lives and steer the wayward back onto the right path.
The 10-year veteran still recalls the young drug addict intent on giving her a
hard time. Holmes delved deeper and discovered that the woman had been molested
as a child.
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Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008
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A young man in black
hunched over on a bench outside the courtroom door, head hung low and right leg
pumping like a piston.
His girlfriend sat beside him, twirling a lock of hair around an ornately
painted fingernail and staring into space. She seemed oblivious to the people
pacing the worn blue carpet around her.
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Monday, Aug. 25, 2008
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Lt. Stephen Wright
gunned his police cruiser down Meeting Street in Charleston, anxiously tapping
his fingers on the steering wheel as he tried to gain ground on a Honda sedan
racing into the distance. Wright couldn't afford to lose the Honda's driver, a
broad-shouldered ex-con wanted for probation violations.
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Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008
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Julianne Blakeley did
what many do when they need their homes painted. She hired a contractor. And, as
with most homeowners, she knew almost nothing about the painters she invited in.
On the morning of Sept. 26, firefighters rushed to Blakeley's Litchfield Beach
home after neighbors saw smoke coming from the house. They found the 63-year-old
woman dead, partially clothed in her bed.
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