I'm ready to bet my pension plan and my house with anyone that his dad will not be released from jail to attend the funerals.
They allow this, on humanitary reasons, when someone is emprisoned for a minor crime. Rizzuto is in an american jail, which is way more strict than the canadian prison system. It took years for the american justice to extradite Rizzuto from Canada to get his trial and prison sentence in the USA.