The Nation - News from July 28, 1987

Former Rep. George Hansen will remain in prison until Sept. 23 following denial of his request to the U.S. Parole Commission to be freed immediately, a Justice Department spokesman said. The commission voted 7 to 2 that Hansen, who was arrested April 15 in Omaha, Neb., for violating the terms of his parole, should remain at the federal penitentiary at Petersburg, Va., the spokesman said. Hansen, of Idaho, was freed Dec. 19 after serving six months of a five- to 15-month sentence for failure to disclose $334,000 in loans, plus profits from the sale of silver contracts and other transactions. The terms of his parole required him to remain in Virginia.