From the onset, it is very clear that Lewis E. Lawes, the former warden of Sing Sing prison is reading from cue cards by his eye movements as he reads.
It is unlikely that Jim Roland or Broadway have applied for and received drivers licenses to operate a motor vehicle, and yet they drive cars in violation of their parole.
"Broadway" is in violation of his parole conditions by possessing a hand gun.
Lawrence Tierney showed up to all the press junkets, and was sober through all of them, to promote this movie... while proving to RKO that he could remain clean and professional after being arrested multiple times following his breakthrough in Dillinger. But by the following year he was back to drinking and fighting, and the year after, dropped by the studio, his final movie being Bodyguard where, like this picture, he's the hero, not the villain.