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Pennsylvania passes law designed to speed the parole process and cut prison overcrowding

Filed under: Criminal Law, News Tags: , , by Steven F. Fairlie @ November 23, 2010

On October 27 Governor Ed Rendell signed a new law which will dramatically reduce the time parolees spend in prison for minor, technical violations of parole. Currently, forty-six percent of prisoners paroled are reincarcerated on technical violations like failure to report to the parole agent within three years of release. The new rules are a […]

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