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This legislation is not about challenging this governors authority, nor his willingness to seek a solution to this existing problem. It is about the changing landscape of our criminal justice system, and facing the reality of those changes. When this body passed the 180 days statute in 2011, we all felt that it was a step in the right direction. We now know, especially when Governor O’Malley denied all the recommendation that came before his office shortly after the legislation took effect, that it was politically motivated. We are faced with the Willie Horton syndrome, no political figure will admit it, but it is a reality. This legislation will relieve the governor of that responsibility, and place it where it belongs, in the hands of parole commissioners who are experts in this field; they use a thorough process, vetting these individuals decades or more.

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SB0249 Inmates - Life Imprisonment - Parole Reform

Posted by · January 25, 2018 9:22 AM

		Inmates - Life Imprisonment - Parole Reform We will be hosting a Press Conference and Rally on Lawyers Mall in Annapolis February 1, at 12:00 PM. Try to be there around 11:30. Possible speakers are Delegate Cheryl Glenn, Senator’s Deloris Kelly and Nathaniel McFadden, and Delegates Pam Queen, and Curt Anderson

	Status:	In the Senate - Hearing 2/01 at 2:00 p.m. All Sponsors: By: Senators Kelley, McFadden, Astle, Benson, Conway, Currie, Lee, Muse, Nathan–Pulliam, Robinson, Smith, and Young Assigned to: Judicial Proceedings A BILL ENTITLED
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Repealing certain provisions that provide that inmates serving a term of life imprisonment may be paroled only with the Governor's approval, subject to certain provisions; requiring certain parole decisions to be transmitted to the Governor under certain circumstances; authorizing the Governor to disapprove certain parole decisions in a certain manner; providing that if the Governor does not disapprove a certain parole decision in a certain manner within a certain time period, the decision becomes effective; etc.

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Posted by · January 25, 2018 9:17 AM

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