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That law sharply restricted parole for first-time violent felons.
Fourteen states and the federal government eliminated or severely restricted parole.
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The law not only restricts parole for first-time violent felons, but also gives judges less discretion in sentencing.
The Democratic-controlled State Assembillpassed a bill today sharply restricting parole for first-time violent felons, handing Gov. George E. Pataki a big election-year victory.
Still, the government then ensured that she would be kept in prison based on a legal precedent derived from a 2006 ruling by the Spanish Supreme Court that has allowed the Madrid government to restrict parole for some inmates, applying any benefits for good prison behavior to the full sentencing term rather than the 30-year limit.
The court, drawing on psychological and brain science indicating that people under age 18 are not yet fully capable of controlling their behavior, abolished the juvenile death penalty and greatly restricted life without parole sentences for crimes by juveniles.
States restricted the use of parole and governors who feared being portrayed as soft on crime began to deny virtually all clemency requests.
Robert H. Berger, the deputy director of the division of forensic psychiatry at the New York University Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital Center, who has reviewed the cases of hundreds of parole violators, said that too frequently, parole boards restrict themselves to narrow legalities.
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