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PA: Rendell orders halt to release of parolees

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Rendell orders halt to release of parolees By Andrew Maykuth and Mario F. Cattabiani September 30, 2008 Inquirer Staff Writers Responding to mounting criticism of the judicial system after a paroled felon killed a Philadelphia police officer, Gov. Rendell yesterday ordered a halt to the release of parolees until an independent expert can conduct "a top-to-bottom review" of how the state releases violent offenders. The assessment will be conducted by John S. Goldkamp, chairman of the Temple University Department of Criminal Justice, who Rendell tapped to review a system that each month paroles about 1,000 inmates out of a prison population of about 47,000. The move came on the eve of today's funeral of Police Officer Patrick McDonald, 30, who was killed last Tuesday by Daniel Giddings, a recently paroled violent criminal...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 01, 2008 (boomark / email).