Show parole board rules wife husland husband and must live apart whom god hatli hath joined together let no man put asunder by its own practice and admission the district parole board of washington does not feel bound by this biblical injunction one of its parolees was released i from the lorton reformatory recently and told she would be thrown into prison again for a year if she sees or speaks to her husband within the next 12 months in june 1939 charles R simms 33 and his wife mary 22 were arrested and indicted acted on narcotic charges they pleaded guilty and threw themselves upon the mercy 0 of f the court simms was given six months to a year and his wife was sentenced to one to two years after serving servine his full term simms was released last may mary served a little over a year when she was paroled in august simms was waiting outside the gates of lorton reformatory when they th ey swung open to release his wife whom hom w he had not seen for a year 1 I cant see you charles she wept as he rushed rus hed up to embrace e her 1 I 1 cant go back with you im afraid to talk with you I 1 dont want to come back here for another year behind bars charles went back to their home full of bitterness against the kind of justice which continues to exact punishment after the prisoner has served his term in jail mary took an apartment a block black away in desperation charles appealed for help to the parish priest who had married them a short time before they got into trouble |