http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/article/20130710/NEWS/130719624/1064/vienna-woman-fights-for-prisoner-rights&template=fairfaxTimes

VA has lower crime rates than liberal, bleeding-heart, felon-adoring Maryland. Good for Virginia!

I am startled that it is as high as 4%. They were convicted and sentenced. Appeals can be done, but unless overturned on appeal the full sentence should be served. No parole, period.

That's a bad thing?!

Don't do the crime if you can't serve the time.

That sound you hear is not one single fuck being given.

I think that sounds high also. Didn't Virginia abolish parole years ago?

Yeah, that's what I thought, too. I was one of George Allen's hallmark pieces of legislation.

Its terrible, the inmates are the true victims here. Society has failed them and they should be released immediately.

Fairfax Liberal Wrote:
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> Its terrible, the inmates are the true victims
> here. Society has failed them and they should be
> released immediately.


We will be bringing society in for questioning on this matter.

Sounds High Wrote:
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> I think that sounds high also. Didn't Virginia
> abolish parole years ago?


Yes they did. I maybe wrong but I believe if the person was convicted and sentenced before that law was passed, then the person was still able to receive parole. This is why a few people still get parole.

This was what was explained to me so again, I could have it wrong.

Mr GFR Wrote:
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> Sounds High Wrote:
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> > I think that sounds high also. Didn't Virginia
> > abolish parole years ago?
>
>
> Yes they did. I maybe wrong but I believe if the
> person was convicted and sentenced before that law
> was passed, then the person was still able to
> receive parole. This is why a few people still get
> parole.
>
> This was what was explained to me so again, I
> could have it wrong.

They are, you cant make retro active laws. If they tried to apply it to all of them then every inmate would have to be re-sentenced since they could argue the judges didnt know this at the time they gave the sentence.

Liberal Logic 76 Wrote:
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> Mr GFR Wrote:
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> > Sounds High Wrote:
> >
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> > -----
> > > I think that sounds high also. Didn't
> Virginia
> > > abolish parole years ago?
> >
> >
> > Yes they did. I maybe wrong but I believe if
> the
> > person was convicted and sentenced before that
> law
> > was passed, then the person was still able to
> > receive parole. This is why a few people still
> get
> > parole.
> >
> > This was what was explained to me so again, I
> > could have it wrong.
>
> They are, you cant make retro active laws.

You can if you are a lib and want to tax people for your pet project.

If it's on the internet, it must be true......

Look how many of you dopes assumed the totally wrong title of this post was true.
You could have started by reading the article linked to, but even that disproves the statement in the title. Yes, parole was abolished in Virginia in 1995, but if you were sentenced before then, you are still eligible. However, the 4% number is not of all inmates, but only those still eligible. So, of all Virginians in the DOC system, I would guess the number of inmates that get paroled would somewhere like .0004%, if that high.

The number should continue going down until it gets to zero in a few years. Because the law was passed in 1995 and the only people who can get parole had to be convicted before then, they should be getting older and eventually the ones eligible will all die off. Then we can relax a bit and won't have to worry about paroled criminals roaming free, and also save money by getting rid of the parole officers.

ONLY 4%? That's too high