Parole Deal Dissolves

The Village Voice | March 12, 2008| | Copyright

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The end of Pataki's throw-away-the-key policy hits a 35-year-old snag

Through the first 11 ½ months of Eliot Spitzels now threatened reign as governor, 220 murderers, kidnappers, and arsonists were paroled. Although this rate was about 250 percent higher than the yearly average of 67 such prisoners paroled under George Pataki's harsh regime, hardly anyone noticed.

So Spitzer didn't have to explain that a drivingforcebehind the dramatic increase in paroles of what correction bureaucrats call "A-I felons" was that he'd inherited what seemed an unbeatable lawsuit alleging that ...

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