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Originally Posted by Delgar
Parole boards aren't known for taking sentences lightly, especially not in Canada. Some parole decisions have led to tragedies, which is probably one of the reasons why parole boards are so tough. Look into that before you latch onto one news article.
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Yup they are tough all right.
The RCMP has confimed a second murder charge has been laid against Eric Fish, the convicted killer who was unlawfully at large from a federal halfway house in Vernon, B.C., when he was charged with killing an elderly man in August 2004
Documents showed that before releasing Fish to the halfway house, the National Parole Board ruled he was "high-risk to violently re-offend."
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-col...r.html?ref=rss
There's incredulous outrage that Allan Craig MacDonald (who committed suicide in 1994) had been released in 1989 after only 12 years of a life sentence for a double murder had been served. Within a year he killed Shaw.
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Colum...f-1176110.html
Police in British Columbia have charged a man with seven counts of first-degree murder in a series of drug-related killings in 1995 and 1996
Moyes, who's from Victoria, was on day parole from the minimum-security Ferndale Institution in Fraser Valley when the Abbotsford murders took place, according to Sheldon Fraser, an official with the National Parole Board.
Moyes has a prolific criminal history that began in the 1970s. He has 36 convictions on his record, including three counts of attempted murder. He has also escaped from three B.C. correctional institutes
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...s_name=&no_ads=
A paroled murderer who stabbed a man during a crackhouse binge has been sentenced to eight years in prison.
http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/296319
Sooooo, ya, they are doing a bang up job. Or should I list more?