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The Pennsylvania Parole Board (Board) is committed to protecting the safety of the public, addressing the needs of crime victims, improving county adult probation and parole services and assisting in the fair administration of justice by ensuring the custody, control, and treatment of offenders under the jurisdiction of the Board. [1]
All parole supervision now falls under the jurisdiction of the PADOC; while parole release decisions remain under the jurisdiction of the PA Board of Probation and Parole. The two agencies remain separate. Following passage of the 2021-2022 Pennsylvania budget, the merger was official and permanent. [2]
Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole; ... These two departments were merged to form the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development.
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As of 2018, sixteen states had abolished the parole function in favor of "determinate sentencing". [3] Wisconsin, in 2000, was the last state to abolish that function. However, parole boards in those states continue to exist in order to deal with imprisoned felons sentenced before the imposition of "determinate sentencing".
Marienville, Pennsylvania: State Correctional Institution – Frackville: Frackville, Pennsylvania: State Correctional Institution – Phoenix: Skippack, Pennsylvania: Opened July 11, 2018, replacing the adjoining State Correctional Institution – Graterford, which had been Pennsylvania's largest prison.
The Pennsylvania Parole Board turned down the 83-year-old comedian’s petition to be released from a 10-year prison sentence for aggravated indecent assault.
South Carolina probation and parole officials have scheduled a hearing for Smith on Nov. 20, 30 years after she killed her boys. Susan Smith, convicted of killing her 2 children in infamous 1994 ...