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Originally Posted by DownInFlames
I'm not ignoring anything. Thise 15 points aren't considered by parole boards, are they? I don't know and you don't either.. They don't have limitless power and can't just keep someone in prison if they've met their parole conditions. Did he? Again, we don't know.
It sure seems like he shouldn't have been released but that's doesn't matter. The law states who gets released and unless you can prove the parole board didn't follow the law they did their job.
I'm being pendantic but it's pretty annoying seeing people judge the justice system based on what they feel it should be and not what it actually is.
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I think a determination that "the system is fundamentally broken" as opposed to "these individual parole board members failed" is a reasonable conclusion here, and I agree we don't have enough information yet to determine which is the case.
If the parole board doesn't consider the risk factors from their own studies on what makes parolees likely to commit homicide after release doesn't it seem reasonable that they should change the system and start considering that?