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Under “In-House Parole,” New Mexico Prisoners Remain in Prison
Loaded on Dec. 5, 2018
by Edward Lyon
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2018, page 38
Filed under:
Statistics/Trends,
Release and Reentry,
Parole,
Parole Conditions,
Overdetention,
halfway houses.
Location:
New Mexico.
by Ed Lyon
Parole is generally defined as conditional release from prison before a sentence has expired. But in New Mexico, every month dozens of “release-eligible” offenders join a pool of paroled state prisoners who nevertheless remain incarcerated. Called “in-house parole,” the practice affects nearly 1,000 prisoners a year at ...
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