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| Parole Board Could Be Thing Of Past In DE |
| By doverpost.com |
| Published: 02/17/2011 |
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Dover, Del. — The head of Delaware’s prison system made another fervent pitch last week for the dismantling of the state’s Board of Parole, telling lawmakers on the budget-drafting Joint Finance Committee that the panel has outlived its usefulness and the time has come to “pull the trigger” on its dissolution. Commissioner of Correction Carl C. Danberg bolstered arguments made by Gov. Jack Markell, who recommended in his draft budget that the board be eliminated and its functions absorbed by the Department of Correction and the courts, for a savings of $529,000 next year. Danberg said the parole board’s role in the criminal justice system has grown steadily smaller since Delaware’s 1989 Truth in Sentencing Act abolished parole in favor of minimum mandatory prison terms. Once responsible for monitoring the sentences of all the state’s inmates, the Board of Parole now has jurisdiction over just 238 convicts, Danberg said. Read More. |
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