Should Violent Offenders Get Parole?

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 18, 2017

Marc Morjé Howard, the director of the Prisons and Justice Initiative at Georgetown, argues that it's time to rethink how America approaches parole in his recent column for The New York Times, “The Practical Case for Parole for Violent Offenders.” He writes that the American justice system needs to bring back what's called "discretionary parole" and release those convicted of violent crimes before their sentence is complete if they've demonstrated progress while incarcerated. 

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