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Curtis transferred to Kingston prison✓CP wire photoNEW PRISON: Bruce Curtis was transferred Monday.said he will probably have to wait a The two teenagers dumped thebodies in Pennsylvania and wereServes sentence for U.S. murderHALIFAX (CP) — For Alice Curtis, the joy of her son’s transfer from a New Jersey prison Monday was tempered by the knowledge prison bars look the same on both sides of the border.I’m glad to get him out of New Jersey, Curtis said in a telephone interview from her home in Mount Hanley, N.S. But still, he’s coming back to prison.It can’t be all joy.”Bruce Curtis, 24, is serving a 20-year sentence for the 1982 killing of a friend’s mother. He was turned over to RCMP in Trenton, N.J., on Monday and flown to Toronto.He was taken to a prison in the Kingston, Ont., area late Monday.Alice Curtis, who once kept daily vigils outside the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa to press for her son’s release, said he will probably stay in Kingston for at least a few weeks” before authorities consider moving him to a prison closer to home.Bruce Curtis was transferred under an international treaty that allows prisoners to serve out their sentences at home.Under Canadian parole law, Curtis is eligible for day parole immediately and for full parole in December 1989 — 2Vi years earlier than if he had stayed in New Jersey.Day parole would allow him to leave prison during the day but return at night. Alice Curtis, who plans to visit her son next week,while for that kind of freedom.He's eligible, but they’re going to have to assess him for a period,” she said. They're not going to just turn him out when he arrives.”Bruce Curtis was a shy, bookish teenager when he left his Annapolis Valley home six years ago for Loch Arbour, N.J., and the home of Scott Franz, a classmate at Kings-Edgehill, a private school in Windsor, N.S.A series of violent arguments between Franz and his stepfather, Alfred Podgis, 58, culminated with Franz killing Podgis in an upstairs bedroom July 5, 1982.Downstairs, Curtis shot and killed Franz’s mother, Rosemary Podgis, 56.later arrested in Texas.Curtis maintained the shooting was accidental, but was convicted of aggravated manslaughter.Jenny Lyon, Curtis's Canadian lawyer, said she fears Canada maydeny parole in reaction to the amount of attention the case has received.She said concerns from some U.S. officials that Canada will ignore the treaty and simply free Curtis may prompt authorities to deny him parole for as long as possible.That’s a very serious concern — that he will not be treated as an ordinary Canadian — because of all the publicity,” Lyon said.
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Tue, May 03, 1988
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