Cue Gov. McGreevey's mantra: 'If the rules are blind to good behavior, it doesn’t reward change.'
last month: It called for a mechanism by which inmates who reach a certain age and length of incarceration can “apply to a judge for resentencing by proving they have been sufficiently rehabilitated.”of its kind in the country,” the Commission says. Clearly, it is overdue: Countless studies have found that as people get older, “they are less likely to engage in crime,” the report said.
Don’t miss an issue of our Opinion newsletter! Get it delivered each Wednesday right into your inbox by adding your email below and hitting"subscribe."wants to place this Rehabilitative Release Program in the hands of a judge rather than the parole board. Advocates believe that the latter would be a fool’s errand: Exhibit A is a 2021 report from the Office of the Public Defender, which called New Jersey’s parole release process “fatally flawed.
“And once it has denied parole,” the report said, “the Board can decide to keep the applicant in prison for as long as it wishes, without limit. The essentially unrestricted discretion the Board has been given -- and takes full advantage of -- is rarely questioned by New Jersey courts. This has created a system with little oversight, little due process, and manifest injustice.”
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