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MA: Parole records under Romney, Patrick similar

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Parole records under Romney, Patrick similar Data on releases reveal little about politics By Jonathan Saltzman Globe Staff / February 7, 2011 The Christmas weekend slaying of a Woburn police officer by a recently paroled inmate renewed criticism in some quarters that Democratic Governor Deval Patrick, who had been in office two years when Domenic Cinelli was freed, is soft on crime. But over the past 20 years, the percentage of inmates paroled while serving a life sentence like Cinelli?s peaked in 2004, when all seven members of the state Parole Board had been appointed or reappointed by Republican governors, according to data obtained from the agency. Mitt Romney, a Republican, was governor that year but did not have a majority of the appointees on the board until late 2005...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 07, 2011 (boomark / email).