REVOCATION NATION: REINCARCERATION FOR TECHNICAL PAROLE VIOLATIONS IN THE AGE OF COVID-19
…$80 parole fee and putting food on the table. He worried that if he got pulled over for speeding, a warning would go straight to his parole officer (PO). Like…
Parole In Massachusetts: Ignored, Misunderstood, And Misrepresented
…parole attorneys. She told BINJ that as chair, Gomez recently instituted a new policy regarding hearing procedure which is a barrier for those seeking parole. In Massachusetts, lifer parole release…
THE DYSFUNCTIONAL MASS PAROLE BOARD’S INEVITABLE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
Left: A packed briefing on parole issues at the Massachusetts State House (Jan. 2020). Photo by Jean Trounstine. Right: Parole Board Chair Gloriann Moroney at her parole confirmation hearing before…
MORE DYSFUNCTION THAN DIVERSITY
…a year of parole supervision is less than $10,000. (Parole reported an annual cost of $5,000 in 2013.) Research has shown that states that allow people on parole to stay…
DANCING ON BANANA PEELS
…70-page parole termination packet was spearheaded by his parole officer (PO) and the PO’s boss, who both concurred Mustafa’s many years on parole were enough. Although his paperwork elaborated on…
THE MASS PAROLE BOARD HAS A TRANSPARENCY PROBLEM
…why. An example is Arthur Bembury, who was paroled from a second-degree murder sentence in 2005 and placed on lifetime parole (as are all who earn parole on a parole-eligible…
MORALE VIOLATION
…serving as Santa’s deputy chief, a job she was appointed to after being an entry-level parole officer called a “transitional parole officer” (TPO). Wetherbee now supervises all the institutional parole…
CHANGING PERCEPTION, CHANGING THE LAW
…January 2018, after 38 years, four previous parole board denials, and having mentored hundreds of men inside. The parole board is a major focal point of RAPP. “New York’s parole…
Correcting The Record: Mass Parole Rates For Lifers Are Not Really Rising
…number of positive and negative votes by Parole Board members. The Parole Board publishes information on these delays. In 2023, “89 incarcerated individuals (25% of those with parole decisions) experienced…
THE FIGHT FOR LIFE
…and he was released on parole in 2017, Hartman penned an editorial titled “Death by Another Name” for the Marshall Project, writing that the sentence of life without parole only…