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A room full of cokeheads, bristling with that hard, artificial arrogance, can be an unsettling place. "With cocaine," says Vertell Pendleton, a Chicago drug-abuse counselor and former user, "you're indestructible, perfect, the giant of your dreams." Donald, 42, a Philadelphia-born investment banker, lost his job, squandered his...
In April 1981, suspicious investigators from the internal-affairs division devised a plan to catch Sergeant Tarver with his hand in the cocaine jar. They planted 236 grams of coke in an unclaimed suitcase turned over to Tarver at the Houston airport. Police followed him, stopped his car and found...
A Cambridge-based, non-profit training and counseling service for unemployed ex-convicts. IOU offers its clients--all on probation or recently released after sentences for minor offenses--an eight-week employment training program which includes sessions on interview preparation and role playing through stressful situations they might encounter on...
Judges and probation officials contacted this week said they are pleased with the program's recent success. Somerville Judge Henry A. Tempone says IOU helps the clients overcome a defeatist attitude that comes with being "legally handicapped."
State Probation Officer Daryl Smith sees the program as a sign of sincerity by the ex-convicts because they are given the choice to enroll.