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MA: Setting compassionate release back.... Boston Globe article on Edward Corliss

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

This one article will certainly be used to thwart the movement toward compassionate release. Lois The Boston Globe In 2006 parole bid, a plea for leniency Tape of suspect projects suffering | Years after release; man held in shooting By Jonathan Saltzman and Maria Cramer, Globe Staff | January 16, 2010 Standing before the parole board in 2006, Edward Corliss presented himself as a frail, meek man who had battled cancer, hepatitis, and alcoholism and overcome the anger and bitterness that led him to kill a store clerk in Salisbury decades before. ?I?m definitely a changed man from what I was back then,?? Corliss said in a high, raspy voice, according to a tape of the roughly hourlong hearing obtained by the Globe last night. ?I know now life is something you can?t give back, and I?ll always regret that...continue to full post

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