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Miriam Van Waters Papers. Reformatory for Women at Framingham, 1876-1970. Subseries 3. Student correspondence, 1936-1971, n.d. Correspondence: R, 1932-1957. A-71, folder 332. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
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Sir: Yesterday you told me that the Board of Parole refused to give up jurisdiction over me. As the legal maximum penalty of the charge, Adultery, expires Jan. 20, 1938, the jurisdiction of the Board of Parole automatically expired on that date. An indeterminate sentence always expires on completion of the maximum penalty. If you will look up the court record you will find that I was tried for Adultery and on only one count, and that charge carries a three-year maximum penalty (not five). Next, when I was brought here I had not served my minimum penalty and so was not eligible for parole. I had never applied to the Board of Parole for parole, and so the Board of Parole had no jurisdiction over me.
There is a statute in this state that provides that a prisoner may refuse to apply for parole or to see the Board of Parole and that the prisoner may refuse the parole even if it is offered, and elect to finish their time in the penetentary, and that the prisoner may refuse to be paroled to any specific person if they do not like the position offered, and may surrender their parole if at any time they become dissatisfied with the parolee. As I am not sick and haven't been I am dissatisfied with the place that I have been paroled without request, and have demanded to be returned to the prison two years ago.
Now my time is up, and the Board of Parole has automatically lost jurisdiction over me if it ever had it (which I deny). And if you hold me longer you do so at your own risk.
Respectfully yours,
(Signed) Anna T. W. Robinson (Called by you Anna Robinson