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New Jersey Appellate Court Modifies Use of Polygraphs for Paroled Sex Offenders
Loaded on March 9, 2017
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2017, page 62
Filed under:
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Polygraphs,
Parole,
Parole Conditions.
Location:
New Jersey.
On January 21, 2016, a New Jersey appellate court upheld the State Parole Board’s requirement that sex offenders take polygraph examinations but modified how the results could be used, prohibiting evidentiary use that could result in the revocation of parole or tightening of parole conditions to reduce the parolee’s liberty. ...
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