Connections » Montana Board of Pardons and Parole

Thanks to John Wirtala for informing the public of the Parole Board activities.

Casey — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:22:43 +0000

"They offer an inmate a parole board meeting before they are eligible. If the inmate isn’t aware of this when he shows up they flip them for a full year or two if they are exceptionally early. That way they can set the budget and count on that income for the next year or two." Continue reading →

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Marc — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:38:44 +0000

Our prisons are full because intake exceeds outflow. The bottleneck in the system seems to be the Board of Pardons and Parole. No matter how statistics are manipulated, research shows there are approximately 600 inmates who, as their duly elected sentencing judges planned, are eligible for parole right now...

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