ALBANY – An upstate appellate panel held Thursday that the Board of Parole has no obligation to spell out its procedures or provide more than a cursory explanation for its decisions to deny an inmate release.
The ruling dashed the hopes of inmates and activists, who believed that a 2011 amendment to the Executive Law required the parole board to shift its focus from punishment to rehabilitation.
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