A Virginia legislator apparently thinks the parole board isn’t releasing enough inmates. So he has introduced a bill, HB318, that would let legislators, rather than the governor, pick many of the parole board’s members. His bill would also make it much easier to parole inmates serving life sentences — which could result in the release of many killers. The bill would also make it hard not to parole inmates who committed crimes as juveniles, if their continuing dangerousness is due to “the nature of the offense” they committed or other factors beyond their “demonstrated ability to control.”
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