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9 Jul, 2008 6:21 pm
... nearly a quarter century ago, there are still some folks in federal prison serving parole-eligible sentences. One such federal prisoner
lost an appeal today in the Third Circuit in Furnari v. US Parole Commission, No. 07-2853 (3d Cir. July 9, 2008) (available here). Here ... him paroled either at the time of its decision or on some future date.
Furnari claims that the Parole Commission has based its denial of parole on an improper calculation of his offense severity rating and has failed ...
30 Jan, 2008 3:20 am
... distinctive case and facts leads to an interesting opinion from the Tenth Circuit in Alexander v. US Parole Commission, No. 06-1343 (10th Cir. Jan 29, 2008) (available here). Here is how the opinion begins: The
Federal Youth Corrections Act ("YCA"), enacted in 1950, was ... Commission to take into consideration possible conditions on release in its
analysis of Mr. Alexander's parole eligibility, and to develop a pre-release plan for Mr. Alexander, to be followed by the Bureau of Prisons
...
11 Mar, 2004 12:59 am
The US Parole Commission has once again turned down a
request for parole from former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, seized by invading US forces in
1989. Noriega is currently serving a 30-year drug smuggling sentence. A recent letter from the federal judge who sentenced him described Noriega as "'good candidate for parole'', citing his advancing age (he is now 70), his apparently-sincere "
7 Sep 3:06 pm
... residences of the 1,117 sex offenders they supervise, Woods said. Most paroled sex offenders live in apartments, he added, but some live on rural ... Daniel Burns, Gibbons'
communications director, said there is "no way" the state Parole Commission today would release a sex
offender like Garrido after he ... moved to Nevada. Again, according to Woods, these are offenders who are not required to be supervised by parole officers. Woods said his agency is notified in advance when a sex offender from another ...
2 Feb 8:55 pm
... Department data. But none of them have been sentenced to life without parole since Mr. Sullivan was. Indeed, no 13-year-old has been ... a
guarantee that the court will agree to hear it. On the other hand, the question of whether life without parole for juveniles is constitutional
is the logical next step following the court's 2005 decision ... prison. It is only that he should someday be allowed to make his case to the Florida Parole Commission. "I don't think it's possible to say that a 13-year-old ...
15 Aug 6:48 am
... A. Fromme, the waifish acolyte of Charles Manson who tried to kill President Gerald R. Ford in September 1975, was released on parole from
federal prison in Texas on Friday morning after spending three decades behind bars, a prison official said. At 8 a ... supervised. "She is on parole for the rest of her life," said Tom Hutchison, the chief of staff of the United States Parole Commission. Ms. Fromme was 26 when she pushed through a crowd in Sacramento, pulled a pistol from a holster on her thigh ...
29 Mar, 2007 10:19 am
... reasons for refusing to release offenders convicted of third degree felony drug possession, essentially disallowing the BPP for refusing parole to these nonviolent offenders on the grounds that they are a danger to the public. A third degree felony possession charge is 1-4 grams ... And, of
course, this session seemingly every committee hearing has to have something to do with the Texas Youth Commission, and this one is no
exception: HB 3206 by Sylvester Turner would add a study component to the ...
28 Sep, 2007 4:53 am
... prediction based solely on circumstances, I have no inside knowledge: An attorney somewhere in Texas will soon sue the Youth Commission on
behalf of one of the 79 youth offenders with determinate sentences being kept there past their 19th birthday. And they'll ... orders; and (B) the sentence is completed prior to
expiration of TYC's jurisdiction; or (3) transfer to the TDCJ Parole Division on the 19th birthday for youth who: (A) have not completed the
court-imposed sentence; and (B) have not been ...
2 Jan, 2007 9:45 am
... the death penalty is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency," the report states. The findings, authored by a 13-member commission
created in late 2005 by the Legislature, found abolishing the death penalty would eliminate the danger of ... death penalty in New Jersey be abolished and replaced with life
imprisonment without the possibility of parole, to be served in a maximum security facility. The Commission also recommends that any cost savings resulting from the abolition of the death ...
13 Apr, 2007 5:35 am
... don't fall through the cracks. HB 2938 (discussed here) would require parole for certain low-level offenders when they've completed minimum
requirements. HB 2100 ... , the passage this week of Chuy Hinojosa's SB 103, a major Texas Youth Commission reform bill, made headlines (see
prior Grits coverage). Rather than go ... Whitmire's SB 838 which creates intermediate sanctions options for parole violators that should
reduce overall parole revocation rates. As described here, the Senate Health and Human ...
5 Dec, 2007 3:27 pm
... . Opening Remarks by the Chair II. Approval of the Minutes of the Meeting of the Commission held on October 30. 2007 III. Presentation
Concerning the Monthly Prison Population, Parole and Probation Tracking Tools Dr. James Austin, ... Rights Advocates Concerning their Work
VIII. Public Comment IX. Discussion Concerning the Writing of the Report by the Advisory Commission on the Administration of Justice for
Delivery to the 2009 Legislature X. Discussion of Potential Topics, Dates and Locations for ...
2 Jan, 2007 10:34 am
... AP report: New Jersey should abolish its death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, according
to a special commission's report sent Tuesday to Gov. Jon S. Corzine and legislators. The report, ... . It also found the death penalty costs
taxpayers more than paying for prisoners to serve life terms without parole. "There is increasing evidence that the death penalty is
inconsistent with evolving standards of decency," the report states. Corzine, a Democrat, ...
24 Oct, 2007 9:27 am
The Legislature's Advisory Commission on the Administration of Justice will conduct a hearing on October 30, 2007 at 9:00 a.m. in room 1214 of
the Legislative Building in Carson City. It will be videoconferenced to the Grant Sawyer building in ... on Various Issues, including, without limitation: A. The Inmate Population. B.
The Status of the Computer System. C. Update on Parole Eligibility and Release of Inmates pursuant to Assembly Bill No. 510 of the 2007
Legislative Session. V. Presentation by ...
8 May, 2007 2:47 am
... date is more than six months from the date of application for MRIS]. This allows medical releases to move forward independent of reguar parole reviews, where release rates are at historical all-time lows. Chairman Madden's legislation would have required this change anyway, but it's good to
see Mrs. Owens (whose husband Ed is now executive director of the Texas Youth Commission) proposing the change of her own accord. Another
proposed rule change removes the requirement that new information be ...
16 Mar, 2008 12:28 am
... . Sheriff's Capt. Todd Luce said it will be up to Texas to determine how to punish Semento for violating the conditions of his parole. ...
Jason Clark, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said Semento was convicted of first-degree murder in ... for reasons I've never understood, Texas' parole board is MORE likely to follow its guidelines for the most violent offenders - like this guy - than for the lowest risk inmates. The Sunset
Commission staff report evaluating them in 2006 ...
11 Jan, 2007 8:02 am
... of all state agencies, has recommended major changes in the operations of the Texas Criminal Justice System. First, the Commission
recommends more programs aimed at rehabilitation and less spending on construction. That's in line with the recent ... long on rehab, short on new cells." Texas lawmakers on an
influential state commission formally recommended an overhaul of the prison rehabilitation, probation and parole systems Wednesday, hoping to reduce crowding without building new units. State ...
17 Apr, 2008 3:22 am
... a lower intensity relapse prevention intervention for offenders who have already completed some treatment, and who acknowledge commission
of their offenses. The maintenance program also includes two additional phases of group treatment: a bi- ... to claim that the results are primarily attributable to effective community
treatment or even to the collaboration of treatment and parole supervisory personnel, as advocated in the relapse prevention model. This study,
like many others in the recidivism ...
20 Aug, 2008 3:26 pm
... at yesterday's five-hour hearing, the victims' family members asked the commission to recommend the replacement of the death penalty with a
maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. "To be meaningful, justice should be swift and sure. Life without
parole, ... than good, the letter writers added, "Though we share different perspectives on the death penalty, every one of us agrees that Maryland's capital punishment system doesn't work for victims' families, and that our ...
3 Jul, 2007 2:16 am
RIGHTS-US: High Court Ruling Could Mean More Death Sentences By Srabani Roy NEW YORK, Jul 3 (IPS) - A recent U.S. Supreme ... level in 30
years, according to the Death Penalty Information Centre. A recent poll commissioned by the Centre, sampling 1,000 adults across the country, revealed that almost 40 ... Dieter
told IPS. The availability since the 1990s of a life sentence without the possibility of parole is another major factor in the drop in the
number of death sentences. But citizens are almost ...
31 Oct, 2007 3:33 am
... "Unfortunately, that response has traditionally been longer sentences of some kind, restricting parole release, those sorts of things. And
the fact of the matter is there's been ... programs would be completed by Nov. 21. They also asked that the governor establish a commission -
to include former inmates, their families, advocates, public officials and two members of Clean Slate - that would work on parole and community
re-entry. Lantz agreed to establish such a commission, but said she could not ...
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