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12 Jun 2012, 5:03 pm
They include: Merger of separate pardon and parole boards (House Bill 518): Two members will be added to the five-member pardon board, and the seven-person panel, sitting as a "parole committee," will decide whether to release eligible prisoners on parole. [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 4:56 pm
The story opens:More than 20 years after Texas limited the responsibilities of the state Board of Pardons and Paroles to approving or denying cases not supervising parole officers or parolees a new state report is sparking debate about whether to expand the agency's duties again.Such a change, if approved, would be the biggest shift in Texas' corrections system in decades — and the idea has sparked a turf war between the … [read post]
1 Jun 2012, 5:26 pm
Even if she did, though, her actual-innocence claims are strong enough that the Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. [read post]
30 May 2012, 5:45 pm
A proposal to merge the Pardon Board with the Parole Board was endorsed by the state Sentencing Commission and is on the verge of passing the Legislature. [read post]
28 May 2012, 4:56 pm
That individual also must have been sentenced to a Utah or other United States prison. [read post]
28 May 2012, 8:01 am
The same goes for political opposition to mandatory minimums: Even if Congress or state legislatures were to reduce or eliminate mandatory minimums, it would require clemency by executives or state parole boards to affect the many thousands already incarcerated under such terms. [read post]
26 May 2012, 5:24 am
The Commission's report - which encompasses the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the Board of Pardons and Paroles, the Windham School District, and the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee - makes various recommendations with which TCJC agrees. [read post]
24 May 2012, 7:10 pm
Louisiana leads the nation in the percentage of its citizens serving life without parole, fueling the state’s world-leading incarceration rate. [read post]
22 May 2012, 1:31 pm
The Montana Board of Pardons and Paroles is recommending against allowing Ronald Smith to live out the rest of his life at the state prison — despite his emotional apology from Smith at his clemency hearing earlier this month. [read post]
22 May 2012, 12:25 pm
Last year Grits wondered aloud if the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles had created massive civil liability for themselves and the state by continuing to defy the federal judiciary over the application of "Condition X," which is a battery of sex-offender conditions (basically everything except public registration, including residency restrictions, etc.) applied as a condition of parole, even though the parolee has never been convicted of a sex… [read post]
22 May 2012, 1:11 am
" Rissie Owens, chairwoman of the state Board of Pardons and Paroles, and other parole officials were not available to comment Monday. [read post]
21 May 2012, 12:54 pm
Under state law, he must have a recommendation from the Ohio Parole Board before acting. [read post]
14 May 2012, 11:59 am
• The final decision is made to grant or deny clemency by the Governor of the State of Arizona, which may or may not be in agreement with the Recommendations of the Board. [read post]
4 May 2012, 10:05 am
Capital punishment is gone from nearly all other Western democracies, and so the spectacle on display at the Montana Board of Pardons and Parole this week would have been unthinkable almost anywhere else in the West. [read post]
3 May 2012, 6:30 pm
More than 20 witnesses spoke to the Montana Board of Pardons and Parole. [read post]
3 May 2012, 1:43 pm
Montana Board Hears Mercy Case for Canadian on Death Row: David Murray of the Great Falls Tribune reports convicted murderer Ronald Smith, who has admitted to being the gunman in two 1982 murders, had his clemency hearing before the Montana Board of Pardons and Parole Wednesday, asking to have his death sentence commuted to life without the possibility of parole. [read post]
1 May 2012, 9:26 am
Beginning Wednesday, he'll ask for clemency at a two-day hearing before the state's Board of Pardons and Parole. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 11:42 am
The state Board of Pardons and Paroles today spared the life of a Taylor County murderer who was facing death by lethal injection this week, granting clemency for the fourth time since 2002. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 10:55 am
Sentence of Georgia Death Row Inmate Commuted to LWOP: A News Release by Steve Hayes, Director of Public Affairs for the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles, reports clemency was granted to condemned inmate Daniel Greene. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 6:28 am
More than 32,000 people have signed an online petition urging Governor Rick Perry and the Board of Pardons and Paroles to pardon Kerry Max Cook, who was falsely convicted of murder in Tyler, was cleared by DNA after 20 years on death row, but has never been formally exonerated. [read post]
