Posted on 09/25/2007 7:21:00 AM PDT by freespirited
Governor M. Jodi Rell has banned parole for all Connecticut inmates serving time for violent crimes, in response to another serious offense allegedly committed by a state parolee.
New York City police shot and wounded James Biggs, 45, in the Bronx early Friday. They say that he threatened them with a kitchen knife and that the car he was in was taken in a carjacking in Hartford on Thursday. Biggs was paroled less than a month ago.
Rell's announcement Friday was made two months after two convicted burglars on parole were charged in a violent home invasion in Cheshire that left a woman and her two daughters dead.
The governor also directed the state Board of Pardons and Paroles to review immediately all current parolees who were sentenced for violent crimes. She said any of those convicts who are in violation of their paroles, no matter how minor the offense, will be returned to prison to serve out the remainder of their sentences....
Rell said the ban will be in effect until the state overhauls its parole process.
"No more. Security comes first," Rell said in a statement Friday afternoon. "I will not allow public safety to be jeopardized because parolees return to a life of crime."
All criminals convicted of violent offenses in the state are already required to serve 85 percent of their sentences. The parole ban boosts that to 100 percent.
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He also made us "shall-issue" for concealed carry at the same time. So there is that additional deterrent effect.
Good news for CT.
Finally sanity! I have always maintained that no matter what the cost it is cheaper to keep criminals in jail than to release them.
I still want a gun to protect myself.
Sheesh, how much consideration does that one require before it is enacted? Who was the nimrod that initially said HI wasn't a violent crime?
Hartford = Crime problem for the Bronx. This is how far Connecticut has fallen.
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