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California's No Parole Board

Loaded on April 15, 2000 by Marvin Mentor published in Prison Legal News April, 2000, page 1
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole. Location: California.
With no change in the statutory standards for lifer parole hearings, the CA Board of Prison Terms (BPT) has reduced its rate of parole grants from 50% in 1978 to 0.2% in 1998. In April, 1999, newly elected Governor Davis (who has the constitutional power to recommend BPT en banc ...

 

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