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Expanded Eligibility for New York Medical Parole Has Little Effect

by Matt Clarke

In April 2009, New York passed a statutory amendment that expanded the state’s compassionate release program for terminally ill prisoners. The amendment permitted medical parole for prisoners convicted of certain violent crimes who were physically or cognitively unable to present a threat to society, if they had ...

 

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