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Israeli Study Shows Parole Decisions May be Affected by Whether Board Members are Hungry
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2012, page 8
A ten-month study of over 1,100 parole hearings in Israel indicates that the odds of a prisoner being found suitable for parole seem to be affected by the interval between the hearing and the time the board members last ate, with the odds decreasing dramatically as the length of that ...
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