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Showing Original Post only (View all)Report: Pollard collapses in prison, hospitalized [View all]
Source: YNet
The Committee to Free Jonathan Pollard reported Saturday that he collapsed in prison over the weekend and had to be hospitalized.
Pollard, 58, who is serving a life sentence for espionage, has reportedly been experiencing pain for several weeks, but it is still unknown whether it was the cause for his hospitalization.
Read more: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4314064,00.html
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So he gets out because his paymasters were cowards? Nope. He just plain gets to serve his time .....
marble falls
Dec 2012
#32
He does not get out early. If he really did what he did on pinciple then he understands this.
marble falls
Dec 2012
#2
and he was a cocaine addict on principle too? He was a spy wannabe that was always on the edge of
grantcart
Dec 2012
#42
Then he understands being a prisoner of conscience. We empty Gitmo long before he gets out.
marble falls
Dec 2012
#31
Yes, when you are sentenced to life in prison, you experience your health problems there
alcibiades_mystery
Dec 2012
#28
First time I've heard of him... but after reading the Wikipedia article... glad he's locked up. nt
Comrade_McKenzie
Dec 2012
#29
I've been told Pollard is the check point for the intelligence community. If a president
byeya
Dec 2012
#33
You couldn't pay me to have sympathy for him (but then again I'm not Pollard)
Tom Ripley
Dec 2012
#39