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14 Jun 2012, 8:17 am
A more immediate recommendation is for states to empower parole boards to determine which aging prisoners are worth the cost of continued incarceration because they pose grave public safety threats and which are not and can be safely released. [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 12:07 pm
A more immediate recommendation is for states to empower parole boards to determine which aging prisoners are worth the cost of continued incarceration because they pose grave public safety threats and which are not and can be safely released. [read post]
8 Jun 2012, 12:12 pm
He also signed a bill that allows low-risk repeat offenders to appear before a parole board after serving one-third of their sentences. [read post]
5 Jun 2012, 7:26 pm
John Whitmire made some strong points while parole board chair Rissie Owens was testifying, complaining that TDCJ failed to provide treatment for prisoners until the parole board ordered it as a condition of release. [read post]
4 Jun 2012, 11:48 am
The legislature passed HB 543, which will allow prisoners serving life sentences for nonviolent crimes to go before a parole board to prove they are ready for release. [read post]
1 Jun 2012, 8:51 am
"The board deserves credit. [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]
23 May 2012, 4:00 pm
Upon release, the Texas Board of Parole imposed various “sex offender” conditions on Jennings based in part on an unrelated sex offense he committed over three decades earlier. [read post]
23 May 2012, 8:53 am
The Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 on Tuesday, May 22, to have county counsel research the proposal and return with a proposed ordinance at a future meeting. [read post]
22 May 2012, 1:54 pm
Smith, believed to be one of only two Canadians on death row in the United States, received a recommendation of no clemency from the Montana Parole Board on Monday. [read post]
21 May 2012, 11:06 am
Prison officials and the Board of Parole Hearings recommended Wade be released under the state's compassionate-release law. [read post]
19 May 2012, 2:37 pm
If any jail time is imposed, that too may cost money, as the hapless Edwina Nowlin discovered, and the costs of parole and probation are increasingly being passed along to the offender. [read post]
18 May 2012, 9:52 am
It's not like the California Board of Parole Hearings is very inmate-friendly, after all. [read post]
11 May 2012, 3:44 pm
The Supreme Court previously has held that a sentence of life without chance of parole constitutes cruel and unusual punishment for a minor in all non-homicide cases. [read post]
29 Apr 2012, 11:10 am
In rejecting freedom for Charles Manson, a California parole board Wednesday said they were swayed in part by comments he made to prison psychologists. [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]
11 Apr 2012, 11:09 am
While these factors contribute to a lack of consistency when dealing with probation and parole, the primary obstacle to detailing specific state protocols is that the practice of granting probation and/or parole at the state level is dependent on the discretionary powers of select individuals, such as the prosecutor, the judicial authority, and the parole board, to name just a few. [read post]
6 Apr 2012, 11:21 am
Thirty-four years later, another initiative is going on the California ballot, this time to repeal the death penalty and replace it with mandatory life without parole. [read post]
29 Mar 2012, 1:19 pm
This is indeed the first time a California case has ever used this term. [read post]
26 Mar 2012, 6:51 am
Over the next five to ten years Grits expects this to become one of the central challenges of modern prison management, not to mention a source of increasingly poignant moral conundrums for the legislature and the parole board. [read post]
