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A parole board consists of people qualified to make judgements about the suitability of a prisoner for return to free society. Members may be judges, psychiatrists, or criminologists, although some jurisdictions do not have written qualifications for parole board members and allow community members to serve as them. A universal requirement is ...
New Jersey State Parole Board; New Mexico Parole Board [12] New York State Division of Parole; Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board; Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole; Rhode Island Parole Board [13] South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services; Tennessee Board of Parole; Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles; Utah Board ...
The Board was re-titled the United States Parole Commission. The Act also incorporated the regions that had been established by a prior pilot project, required explicit guidelines for decision making, required written rejections, and established an appeal process. The Comprenhensive Crime Control Act of 1984 brought major changes to the Commission.
The Ohio Parole Board voted 5-0 Feb. 26 to parole Lavonia Spann, 57, pending the decision of the full board hearing, which the News Journal viewed on The Ohio Channel live.
The Legislature in 2023 rescinded the statute requiring at least one member of each Parole Board decision panel to be a permanent member. William Morris covers courts for the Des Moines Register.
Susan Smith is hoping to be granted parole later this month — but the parole board has been deluged with dozens of letters of opposition from friends, family and members of the public. doc.state ...
Brewer, 408 U.S. 471 (1972) The Supreme Court extended Fourteenth Amendment due process protection to the parole revocation process, hold that the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires a "neutral and detached" hearing body such as a parole board to give an evidentiary hearing prior to revoking the parole of a defendant and ...
The Parole Board later said: “After considering the circumstances of his offending, the progress made while in custody and the evidence presented at the hearing, the panel was not satisfied that ...