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Chairman says parolee had ‘exemplary’ recordJoseph Galkin, chairman of the State Parole Board, said today that Steven Robertson of Middletown has been an exemplary prisoner. Robertson was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1967 for murdering two sailors here. He will be paroled next mnih.The board Thursday voted torelease Roberlsen, 38, on Nov. 10. State law mandates that life prisoners serve 10 years of their sentences before they can ask for parole.Approval on a first request is rarely granted and Robertson is one of the first lifers known Vo gel it.Galkin said that Robertsonhad “a perfect and enviable record'* and had done much for prison reform legislation. He said' that several legislators, judges and two former wardens wrote in favor of the parole.A condition of his parole is that he live at Dismas, a halfway house operated hythe Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence. He will work as a counselor at the Christian Brothers Center in Narragan-sett.4'We reviewed the case withgreat care/' Galkin said. “He had a perfect record and served one-Uiird of bis life in prison and showed that a man. can do something positive with his life even there.MRobertson in August of 1968 was sentenced to two concurrent life terms. He was cert-victed of murdering two sailors with a rifle in 1967 at the Quality Lunch on Broadway after an argument. He has been in minimum security since 1973 and most recently worked in the prison’s furlough office.
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Newport Daily News
Newport, Rhode Island, US
Sat, Oct 29, 1977
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