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Former Maryland Governor Acknowledges Politics Behind Life Means Life Policy
Loaded on July 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2013, page 53
Parris Glendening, who served as Maryland's governor from 1995 through 2002, has acknowledged, around a decade later, the role that politics played in his adoption of a "life means life" policy that effectively ended early release for prisoners sentenced to life with parole. [See: PLN, June 1996, p.7].In an ...
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