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Georgia seeks to toughen parole rules.

By Rob Leonard

ATLANTA (AP) _ Georgia’s crowded prison population is expected to swell even larger over the next few years under new parole guidelines designed to keep the state’s worst violent offenders behind bars longer. The state Board of Pardons and Paroles on Thursday gave tentative approval to new rules that would use a formula aimed at calculating a prisoner’s chance of re-offending in determining when he or she would be granted parole. The rules also seek to bring parole guidelines in line with sentences handed down by the judges in each case. The change would mean that high-risk violent offenders would spend more time in prison, while those behind bars for minor crimes who are unlikely to offend again would get out sooner. “We’re making room for violent offenders,” board chairman Garland Hunt said on Thursday...continue to full post

Full post as published by Georgia Criminal Law Blog on November 09, 2007 (boomark / email).