ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A proposal in the New York Legislature would overhaul the state’s parole system to shift its emphasis on technical violations such as missing curfew to a series of incentives that reward good behavior. The bill announced ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in New York are heading to Long Island for the second of two days of hearings into recent decisions by the state parole board to release some high-profile offenders. Tuesday morning’s hearing will be ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in New York will hold hearings into recent decisions by the state parole board to release some high-profile offenders. The state Senate’s GOP majority announced the move Monday. No dates have been announced. Lawmakers ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Two new reports from Columbia University are raising questions about New York’s probation and parole system — and offering suggestions for making it more effective. The publications issued Monday were written by corrections experts from around ...

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BALTIMORE (AP) — A U.S. Supreme Court decision triggering new sentences for inmates serving mandatory life without parole for crimes committed as juveniles has had a far greater effect: The ruling is prompting lawyers to apply its fundamental logic — ...

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WILMINGTON, Del. — It’s just blocks from the house Earl Rice Jr. left behind as a teenager to the places he remembers. But after more than four decades in prison, he has ground to cover. He heads to the park ...

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LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson, the former football star, TV pitchman and now Nevada prison inmate No. 1027820, will have a lot going for him when he asks state parole board members this week to release him after serving more ...

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A 16-year-old federal suit filed by a former state prison inmate against state officials who tried to deny him parole is on the verge of going to trial or being settled after a federal judge denied the New York state ...

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ALBANY — The woman who helped two killers escape from a maximum-security prison in northern New York in 2015 is scheduled for a parole hearing. State prison officials say Joyce Mitchell’s hearing before a parole board will take place this ...

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Appellate Division, Fourth Department Parole Statutory Factors — Severity of Crime Freeman v. Fischer CA 13-00454 Appealed from Supreme Court, Wyoming County Background: The petitioner appealed from a judgment denying his petitioner seeking to annul the determination denying him parole ...

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Appellate Division, Fourth Department  Parole Discretionary Release Robles v. Fischer CA 13-01119 Appealed from Supreme Court, Wyoming County Background: The petitioner appealed from a judgment dismissing his petition pursuant to Article 78 seeking to annul the determination of the New ...

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Appellate Division, Fourth Department Parole Post-release Plan Cardew v. Fischer CA 13-00176 Appealed from Supreme Court, Wyoming County Background: The petitioner appealed from the denial of his grievance petition. He alleged that the respondent failed to provide him with sufficient ...

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