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Crime and Justice News
Oct 24, 20242 min read
Alabama Lawmakers Criticize 'Asinine' 8% Parole Rate
Alabama lawmakers sharply questioned the head of the state parole board about low release rates and why lawmakers had not received...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 23, 20242 min read
Study: Of State Prison Admissions, 44% Violated Probation-Parole
A new analysis from the Council of State Government Justice Center found that despite recent declines, parole-probation violators still...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 28, 20231 min read
Massachusetts Breaks Tradition, Terminating Parole For 13 People
In Massachusetts, where only one person received a parole termination since 2018, 13 people recently had their parole terminated by the...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 9, 20232 min read
New Looks at Parole-Probation, From Prison Policy Initiative And From NY 'Less is More' Coalition
A new briefing from the Prison Policy Initiative, "Guilty by association: When parole and probation rules disrupt support systems,”...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 17, 20232 min read
Parole Rates In Most States Have Declined Since The Pandemic
Alabama’s Board of Pardons and Paroles made headlines this year when it denied parole to someone who had died ten days prior to the...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 29, 20232 min read
Former NYC Commissioner Calls For End Of Parole System
Vincent Schiraldi’s new book Mass Supervision calls for the need to end probation and parole as known today, Slate reports. Schiraldi was...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 7, 20232 min read
Is Better Use Of Parole An Answer To Mass Incarceration?
Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia opened its doors in 1829. Its hallmark six-spoked, wheel-shaped design radiates outward from a...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 7, 20231 min read
New Mexico Parole Reform Backed By Community-Led Project
(De)serving Life, a community-led parole preparation, parole advocacy and re-entry project, is preparing to support those affected by new...
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Crime and Justice News
May 24, 20232 min read
Reports Prescribe Fixes for Parole, Probation Flaws That Incarcerate Too Many
Connecticut, like many states, desperately needs reforms to its parole and probation systems, a new report from the Prison Policy...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 5, 20232 min read
TX Justice Employees Disciplined As Parolees Face Murder Charges
Two employees of the Texas criminal justice system were recommended for termination and others were disciplined after two men on parole...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 12, 20221 min read
Should Probation and Parole Be Abolished If They Don't Stop Crime?
Three experts are suggesting "extensive downsizing" of probation and parole or "experimentation with its abolition." The proposals come...
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Crime and Justice News
May 11, 20222 min read
Split NJ Court Paroles Man Who Killed Trooper Nearly 50 Years Ago
Nearly 50 years after he and other Black Liberation Army members engaged in a fatal shootout with a New Jersey state trooper, Sundiata...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 14, 20221 min read
RFK Killer Sirhan Denied Parole
California Gov. Gavin Newsom denied parole to Sirhan Sirhan, who killed Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, the Associated Press reports. Newsom...
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