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Within weeks of the arrests, almost half of those felons were back on the street, having been released on bail, freed on then" own recognizance or placed on probation. The irony is that many of them had been arrested because they had previously jumped bond, violated parole, fled jail or...
In the 1970s a new generation of prison critics took a hard look at indeterminate sentencing and the parole system and concluded that the reforms needed reform. Both liberals and conservatives joined in a movement to do away with pa role boards and adopt fixed sentences.
Liberals wanted to eliminate the wild disparity in sentencing that resulted from the broad discretion given to both judges and parole officials, and to make sentences shorter. Conservatives wanted to guarantee that more offenders went to prison and stayed there. Both groups had abandoned rehabilitation as a purpose of incarceration...
Fixed sentencing "is a simplex solution to a complex problem," says Paul Young, a spokesman for the New York parole board. "Everybody's jumping on the bandwagon, but nobody's looking down the road." The lesson, however, is not quite that nothing changes, nothing works. New York could...
"But there are going to be horror stories no matter what system you have," says Peter Hoffman of the U.S. Parole Commission. At the same time, those horror stories tend to obscure the reality that both the parole system and the fixed-time approach have some advantages. A few states...