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3 Mar 2011, 5:31 am
There are seven risk categories to which potential parolees are assigned, and it's the lowest risk parolees who are being released at below-guideline rates, i.e., the lowest-risk offenders are the ones the parole board is holding onto longer than the guidelines suggest, a situation that's been happening as long as I've paid attention to the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
11 May 2007, 7:36 am
In the culmination of a nine-year process involving a statewide coalition of law schools and advocates for battered women, two women in MIssouri were released from prison recently. [read post]
16 Mar 2008, 10:57 pm
The attorney for alleged arms trafficker Victor Bout claims that Thai law enforcement tried to force Bout to board a plane headed for the U.S. [read post]
14 Feb 2008, 2:20 am
Further, there is no evidence that lifetime GPS reduces recidivism, the board has concluded. [read post]
3 Jul 2011, 12:08 am
He is requesting clemency in the form of a commutation to life without parole. [read post]
22 Oct 2014, 8:10 pm
Which means he serves out his days at the pleasure of the parole board. [read post]
21 Mar 2013, 1:51 pm
While we may not see victories across the board on the bills currently moving though statehouses across the country, the clear message is that legislators are turning away from decades of cripplingly expensive and unjustly punitive incarceration policies and looking for alternatives. [read post]
20 Nov 2012, 6:53 am
"John Bradley among medical parole decisionmakersThe Houston Chronicle has an article providing perspectives on whether and/or how medical parole might be expanded in Texas. [read post]
19 May 2016, 4:50 am
And the number of inmates whose cases are reviewed and the outcomes can be determined from Board of Pardons and Parole reporting. [read post]
6 May 2022, 2:25 pm
As for individual cases, here are a few: ● Board of Pardons v. [read post]
13 Mar 2008, 2:32 am
"If there are transients that result from any level of work that parole is engaged in, it is because (parole officers) have given up on these sex offenders. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 8:25 am
But not without a chance, in the future, for a court or parole board to review his growth and development and consider another chance at parole. [read post]
24 Nov 2009, 10:15 am
"If it was just a matter of getting a request and rubber-stamping what the parole board said, it would be done rather rapidly. [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 8:59 pm
”Because this case continues to be permeated by doubt, the Board of Pardons and Paroles’ stance continues to be the right one. [read post]
1 Nov 2007, 2:30 am
Complete information can diffuse panic and reassure residents.Under the improved system, offenders would be screened by the risk-assessment board using specific criteria.That board would consist of representatives in mental health, corrections and public safety; from the offices of the chief state's attorney, chief public defender and victim advocate; and parole board and court support services representatives.Only those criminals deemed dangerous would be… [read post]
26 May 2007, 1:23 am
Such things as the effectiveness of diversion programs, paroles rates and other factors, plus review and approval by the Legislative Budget Board, would have to have been considered. [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 2:28 pm
And if that were not the case, the Governor of Florida and the Florida Board of Executive Clemency could, in principle, decide to reduce his sentence. [read post]
10 Jun 2012, 12:46 pm
The district court had only three options: (1) impose sentence under the general parole statute, under which Pena Soltren would have been eligible for parole after serving one-third of his term of imprisonment; (2) set a modified date for parole eligibility, which could be less than but not more than one-third of the maximum sentence imposed by the court, or; (3) fix a maximum term of imprisonment to be served and delegate to the parole board the task of… [read post]
1 Dec 2010, 8:53 am
(We have earned time in Texas but the parole board is regrettably free to disregard it, which they routinely do.) [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 7:30 am
And public sentiment that parole boards are letting out people who should still be in prison has made parole less frequent. [read post]
