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MA: Senators file bill to tighten parole

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

By Michael Levenson and Jonathan Saltzman Globe Staff / January 25, 2011 A bipartisan group of state senators said yesterday that they hope to prevent the release of repeat violent offenders such as Domenic Cinelli, who shot and killed a Woburn police officer, by making changes to the parole system that go further than those proposed recently by Governor Deval Patrick. On the same day that Joshua I. Wall, the career prosecutor tapped by Patrick to rebuild the Parole Board, took over as acting head of the embattled agency, 11 senators unveiled a bill at the State House that would make it much harder for repeat offenders to win parole. Inmates serving more than one sentence of 15 years to life ? Cinelli was serving three concurrent life sentences when he was freed in 2009 ? would never become eligible for parole, nor would most prisoners convicted of three or more felonies...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 25, 2011 (boomark / email).