ALBANY – State parole administrators have proposed new rules they say will base inmate release decisions more on actual risk posed to the public and less on the nature of the crime that landed them in prison.
The proposed regulations place a greater emphasis on factors such as good conduct and the education and treatment programs in which they have participated while incarcerated, and less emphasis on the types of crimes they committed years—or in some instances decades—ago.
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