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On January 1, 1986 a two-day riot began at the West Virginia State Penitentiary resulted in three inmate deaths. [3] The Eastern Regional Jail in Martinsburg, the first of the state's 10 regional jails opened in May 1989. The regional jails would gradually replace the 55 county jails. [4]
New Hampshire Department of Corrections#Adult Parole Board; New Jersey State Parole Board; New Mexico Parole Board [12] New York State Division of Parole; Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board; Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole; Rhode Island Parole Board [13] South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services; Tennessee ...
Section 41 of the Parole Act 2002 provides that the Parole board may, on referral by the chairperson, direct that an offender be released on compassionate release on either of the following grounds: (a) the offender has given birth to a child or (b) the offender is seriously ill and is unlikely to recover. [15]
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1 Benjamin Franklin Keller: WV: 1857–1921 1901–1921 — — McKinley: death 2 George Warwick McClintic: WV: 1866–1942 1921–1941 — 1941–1942 Harding: death 3 Harry Evans Watkins: WV: 1898–1963 1937–1963 [Note 1] — — F. Roosevelt: death 4 Ben Moore: WV: 1891–1958 1941–1958 1948–1958 — F. Roosevelt: death 5 John A ...
Many U.S. states offer parole after a decade or more has passed, but in California, people sentenced to life imprisonment can normally apply for parole after seven years. [3] Florida leads the country with nearly one quarter of its LWOP prisoners, more than California, New York and Texas combined. [4]
Every U.S. state also has a parole board. The autonomy of the board from the state governor also varies; in some states the boards are more powerful than in others. In some states the board is an independent agency while in others it is a body of the department of corrections. In 44 states, the parole members are chosen by the governor.
Initially known as the United States Board of Parole, [2] the board had three members and was established by legislation on May 13, 1930 as an independent board. The first chairperson was Arthur DeLacy Wood. As a result of an order of the Attorney General, the Board began reporting directly to him in August 1945.