Their Last Best Hope:

Table of Contents

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• Their Last Best Hope:
  
• Scope of Today’s Discussion
  
• Sources for Information
  
• Pardon v Parole
  
• The Parole Process
  
• A Parole by Any Other Name Smells Just as Sweet
  
• Paroles and Pardon’s are Getting Tougher to Obtain
  
• Start Early
  
• Prepare, Prepare, and Prepare
  
• Letters to the Parole Board
  
• Things Which Should Not be in a Letter to the Parole Board
  
• Law on Representation Before the Parole Board
  
• Advantages of Representative
  
• The Interview
  
• Building Public Sentiment May Be Important
  
• Factors Considered by Parole Boards In Granting a Parole
  
• A Right to a Parole?
  
• What’s the Difference
  
• Even in the Absence of a Due Process Protection, State Statutes May Confer Some Rights
  
• Public Hearings
  
• Admission of Responsibility for Committing Offense
  
• Utilization of Prisoner’s Silence Against Him or Her
  
• Changing the Rules After the Game Has Started
  
• Examples of Changes Which Have Been Upheld
  
• Early Paroles
  
• Prosecutor Proofing Your Parole

Back to Home Page Presentation to Roundtable on Women in Prison, University of Michigan, June 1999 Comments or Questions? Last update: 6/19/1999