Taking politics out of parole
A bill to relieve the governor of a role in the process
Maryland is one of only three states — the others being California and Oklahoma — whose governors have the power to reject recommendations that lifers be released from prison. If the Maryland Parole Commission conducts a hearing and concludes that an inmate serving a life sentence no longer poses a threat to the public, the governor, if so inclined, can dismiss the commission's opinion. It doesn't matter if the inmate has served two, three, even four ... Full Story »
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