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| Parole System To Face New Regulations |
| By capitolweekly.net |
| Published: 01/20/2011 |
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A powerful, little-known unit that conducts psychological evaluations of prison inmates sentenced to life has operated for years in a bureaucratic gray area, with few formal restrictions or guidelines from the state prison system. Critics of the parole system have long contended the unit acts in an arbitrary fashion that serves as a barrier to inmates legally entitled to a parole. Now, state prison officials are writing a formal regulation to govern the entity, known as the Forensics Assessment Division, or FAD, and place the unit into a statute. The shift to a formal status is something that inmate-rights advocates have urged, as have psychologists within the prison system. The proposed changes would put FAD, which works for the Board of Parole Hearings, in charge of performing risk assessments on life-sentenced prisoners who are eligible for parole. The mandatory assessments have been around for more than 25 years but were previously performed by psychologists on staff at the various prisons. Read More. |
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