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Article: Parole board faces charge
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- The Topeka Capital-Journal
- Article date:
- March 13, 2009
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By Tim Carpenter
THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL
House Speaker Mike O'Neal accused the state's parole board
Thursday of failing to abide by a 2008 law requiring an additional
level of analysis when weighing inmate requests for release from
prison.
O'Neal, a Hutchinson Republican, said he was sufficiently
disenchanted with the Kansas Parole Board appointed by Democratic
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius that he proposed a bill eliminating the three-
member panel. Duties performed by the independent board would be
transferred to a new division in the Kansas Department of
Corrections, he said.
"To say I'm disappointed with the response from the parole board
would be an understatement," the House speaker said. "It's ...