Ex-Football Star Could Be Paroled

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Billy Taylor. former star running back
for the U-M, may soon be eligible for pa-
role from the eight-year prison term he
is serving for bank robbery.

Taylor was sentenced last summer to
the Federal Correctional Institution at
Oxford, Wis. for his part in t.h ry
of a bank in his hometown of B^^non,
Ohio.

However, under the terms of his sent-
ence he was eligible'to apply for parole
almost immediately upon arriving at the
institution, located 70 miles north of
i Madison. •

George Ralston, a former officer at the
•Federal Correctional Institution at Milan
and now warden at the Oxford prison,
says Taylor's parole status will be decid-
ed by members of the U.S. Parole Board
in Kansas City, Mo.

Two examiners from that board visited
the Wisconsin prison where Taylor is
held in September. They interviewed a
number of prisoners who have applied
for parole although it was not known if
Taylor was among those appearing.
Warden Ralston had said that Taylor had
applied for such a hearing earlier.

The warden said since Taylor arrived
at the institution in August he has been
working in a clerical position in the chief
supervisor's office. Ralston called Tay-
lor*s general attitude "excellent" and '
said he had presented no problems since
entering the institution.

Gerald Lacattiva, public relations di-
rector for the Oxford institution, said a
recently-passed federal law prohibits the
public disclosure of a prisoner's parole
status.