NATION : Wife of Spy for Israel Gets 12-Day Holiday Leave From Federal Prison
Anne Henderson Pollard, the jailed wife of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, left the federal prison here for a 12-day furlough to spend Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur with her family, a prison spokesman said today.
Anne Pollard, sentenced to five years in prison as an accessory after the fact to her husband’s crimes, left the prison Thursday and is to return Oct. 9, spokesman Joseph Kelley said.
Jonathan Pollard is serving a life sentence at the federal prison in Marion, Ill., for selling secrets to Israel when he was working as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Navy.
His wife has been earning a 10-day-per-month reduction in her sentence for good behavior and will probably be released in March, a U.S. Parole Commission spokesman said. She has been pleading illness since her imprisonment but has refused offers of medical help.
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