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| Alaska Parole Board votes to allow victims at more hearings |
| By adn.com- Jerzy Shedlock |
| Published: 07/16/2015 |
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During its annual public meeting, the state’s Parole Board on Wednesday unanimously passed proposed changes to Department of Corrections regulations, including rules on who is allowed to attend parole hearings largely kept secret from the public. The changes deal with who can come to parole hearings, the process for a victim of a crime to submit materials or a position about an inmate’s release and how parole decisions are reconsidered, among other additions. Parole Board Executive Director Jeff Edwards said victims previously were included only in the “discretionary process,” in which inmates are considered for early release. Now, victims can also weigh in when parolees violate their release conditions, Edwards said. Former regulations stated that if the board granted a request for reconsideration of parole, it would conduct a new hearing. But a change would allow the board to decide based solely on material contained in an inmate’s case file. The practice isn’t uncommon in other states, according to a months-long investigation on parole by the nonprofit news site The Marshall Project. Read More. |
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