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1 Feb 2008, 9:33 am
John Whitmire merely have bought the state enough time to seek long-term solutions.That's still an enormous accomplishment, though, and both men deserve taxpayers' gratitude for staving off the wave of new prison entrants who would have surely overwhelmed an already flooded system. [read post]
25 Sep 2018, 10:00 am
., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On August 22, 2018, a doctor received a sentence of one year and a day in prison from a New York federal court for his part in a $30 million scheme to defraud Medicare and the state Medicaid program. [read post]
4 Feb 2010, 8:45 pm
(AP) - The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled the state parole board can treat some inmates like sex offenders after release from prison even if they were not serving time for any sex crime convictions.The court ruled Thursday that the Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision can base those sex offender conditions on an inmate's criminal history and [read post]
24 Sep 2009, 2:47 pm
The attorney was convicted in Operation Greylord and had served a six-year prison term. [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 2:27 pm by Rachel Myers, ACLU
The Louisiana Senate has just passed H.B. 138, which will enable some prisoners to go before a parole board upon turning 60. [read post]
Last year, former Secretary of State for Justice Dominic Raab made changes to the Parole Board rules which prevented Prison and Probation staff from providing the Parole Board with recommendations regarding the release of imprisoned persons, However, it was held to be unlawful and reversed following its High Court challenge, R v Bailey. [read post]
8 May 2014, 6:28 pm by Michel-Adrien
Inmates are more likely to be granted parole from a low-security institution.Overcrowding is considered a factor that contributes to more violence in prisons.News coverage of the report: Auditor general finds prison expansions aren't keeping pace (CBC News, May 6, 2014)Highlights from the 2014 spring auditor general’s report (Global News, May 6, 2014)Canadian prison overcrowding going to get worse in long-term, auditor general reports (National Post, May 6,… [read post]
24 Dec 2010, 8:56 am
We conclude that the Board abused its discretion in establishing such a lengthy future parole eligibility term. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 1:06 pm by Rachel Myers, ACLU
Watch a video documenting the plight of the elderly in one Louisiana prison, featuring Burl Cain calling for reform: Please note that by playing this clip You Tube and Google will place a long-term cookie on your computer. [read post]
16 Nov 2017, 12:47 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
That creates some interesting near-term possibilities as the Legislature faces another money-strapped session in 2019. [read post]
1 Sep 2021, 4:04 pm by Alicia Maule
We also honor his almost 20-year commitment to eliminating sexual assault in prisons and jails as Vice-Chair of the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission. [read post]
4 Feb 2013, 9:11 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
CCA's track record over the last year at Lake Erie amounts to an across-the board failure: burdening the local community, failing to control the escalation of dangerous conditions within prison walls, all the while ratcheting up costs despite big promises of efficiency. [read post]
25 Aug 2019, 9:29 am by indigo tree
The tariff is the minimum term that they have been sentenced to serve, before their release on licence being considered by a Parole Board. [read post]
12 Jun 2007, 9:26 am
If the research-based diversion programs work, along with probation-strengthening legislation pending before the Governor, my hope is the changes will help alter the long-term trend of seemingly endless prison population increases. [read post]
19 Mar 2014, 1:42 am by Rosalind Earis, 6KBW
Whilst an oral hearing might cost in the short term, affording the individual a chance to a fair hearing will contribute to better decision-making in the long-term and this, ultimately, will save everyone money. [read post]
6 Feb 2022, 9:02 pm by Joseph Margulies
It elevates a small, freakishly unrepresentative fraction of a group, grants them a seat at a table from which they had always been barred, and points to their presence as proof that the old discriminations have fallen by the board. [read post]
26 Sep 2015, 6:21 am by Gritsforbreakfast
  Here are the annual TDCJ "on hand" population totals as of Aug. 31 from '08-'14:2008: 156,126 2009: 155,076 2010: 154,7952011: 156,5222012: 152,3032013: 150,7842014: 150,361Comparing these data to the chart in this post, one sees that the parole board reacted to the state's highest prison population of all time in 2011 by boosting the total number of prisoners released in 2012 by a whopping 9%. [read post]
8 Mar 2009, 1:54 am
" The issue won't be decided until the conference committee on the budget.If pay hikes don't happen, that leaves reducing the inmate population.The good news on that front is that the Legislative Budget Board projects (see p. 14 of the pdf) that Texas' prison population will decline in fiscal year 2009 for the first time in many, many years. [read post]