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| Parole board grants release to first three-strikes inmate after changing stance |
| By pilotonline.com- Tim Eberly |
| Published: 11/29/2017 |
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The state parole board has granted release to a 69-year-old inmate after announcing days ago that it was changing its interpretation of the three-strikes law. Haneef Rashe'd of Norfolk, who has been incarcerated since 1991, appears to be the first three-striker to be granted parole since the board's announcement Saturday that it was changing its stance on the law. The announcement came days after The Virginian-Pilot published an investigative article detailing that three-strikes inmates were serving longer prison terms than the typical first-degree murder convict, even though a high percentage of them injured no one in their crimes and had never been to prison before. Read More. |
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