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P.L. 110-312, The United States Parole Commission Extension Act of 2008 (5 comments ↓ | 6 wiki edits)
- This item is from the 110th Congress (2007-2008) and is no longer current. Comments, voting, and wiki editing have been disabled, and the cost/savings estimate has been frozen.
S. 3294 would provide for the continued performance of the functions of the United States Parole Commission.
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PAUL LUSKIN
September 17, 2008, 4:49pm (report abuse)IT IS OUTRAGEOUS FOR THE CONTINUED INCARCERATION OF THOSE WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN RELEASED AT THE MIN PAROLE GUIDELINE LONG AGO. THE PC SHOULD RELEASE THOSE ELIGIBLE PRISONERS NOW.
legalhern@gmail.com
September 19, 2008, 10:51am (report abuse)By law (act of 1984) the United States Parole Commission (USPC) was supposed to be eliminated on November 1, 1992. Instead of adhering to the law, the USPC has continued to exist, violating parolees, for the most part, for little reason OTHER THAN TO KEEP THEIR JOBS AND POWER. The whole purpose of enacting the United States Guideline was to ELIMINATE the bias, unfairness, and immovable BIAS of the USPC and some Courts. Proportionally, there are very few prisoners in the custody of the USPC. There is no justification to continue to pay the salaries of the few dinosaurs who are hanging on to their jobs causing undue burden on the taxpayers USPC IT IS TIME TO ELIMIATE THE USPC. In response to those who will predictably cry about the safety of citizens (this is b.s.), the remaining prisoners could easily be supervised by the U.S. Court as if on Supervised Release - WHICH REPLACED PAROLE NEARLY A QUARTER CENTURY AGO! JH
legalhern@gmail.com
September 19, 2008, 11:11am (report abuse)UPDATED AND CORRECTED VERSION: My goal (eliminate this totally unnessary burden on the taxpayers) is the hope that either a responsible Senator, Congress person, or any other concerned person actually reads this, I have corrected and updated my previously comments as follows:
The act of 1984 the United States Parole Commission (USPC) was supposed to be ABOLISHED. Instead the USPC has continued to exist, violating parolees, for the most part, for little reason OTHER THAN TO KEEP THEIR JOBS AND POWER. The United States Guideline were enacted was to ELIMINATE the bias, unfairness of the USPC and some Courts. There are very few prisoners in the custody of the USPC. There is no justification to continue to pay the salaries of the few dinosaurs who are hanging on to their jobs causing undue burden on the taxpayer. The few remaining prisoners could be supervised by the U.S. Court as if on Supervised Release - WHICH REPLACED PAROLE NEARLY A QUARTER CENTURY AGO! JH
Jenifer
October 1, 2008, 10:52pm (report abuse)Release them now!! There are so many prisoners that should not be there. And so many families could be saved.
Renee
November 26, 2008, 10:33am (report abuse)I agree with previous posts that these men and women need to be paroled. There are over 200,000
federal prisoners. Release the ones who should have been out. Stop
toturing these families.there is a man who has been in so long his father and 2 sisters have died will the country be satisfied when his mother dies too. Why are these people still locked up?