Demystifying the New York Parole Board’s Murky Decisions
In New York, many incarcerated people don’t know how to secure their freedom. A court fight could clear up the lethally opaque process.
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This is the third installment of a collaboration between Bolts and New York Focus on the opaque institutions that make up New York’s parole system. Read the first and second installments.
This is the third installment of a collaboration between Bolts and New York Focus on the opaque institutions that make up New York’s parole system. Read the first and second installments.
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“This is not just death by incarceration. It is specifically death by the parole board.”
Update: On December 19, the Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision does not need to release Board of Parole training documents prepared by legal counsel.
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