Nobody is willing to say publicly why Pollard never applied for parole.
Sometimes you just don’t give a dam when someone needs you for something. Pete Rose in the HOF is a similar example.
Casper Weinberger and others were frantic not to have Pollard released or even allowed to talk while he was imprisoned.
That’s because Pollard knew all about Weinberger and company’s making nerve gas and other chemicals in a Rockville, Maryland location
and then getting them to Saddam Hussein and Iraq during the Iran/Iraq war.