1. Another major piece of legislation still being negotiated involves ending discretionary parole for all violent felons. 2. At the news conference, he said simply that if elected governor, he would abolish parole for violent felons. 3. A judge would give a convicted violent felon a fixed sentence, not a range, and discretionary parole would be eliminated. 4. A Wyoming-based group called Stopp, which represents families of people killed in police chases, advocates limiting chases to known violent felons. 5. After the show opened, Gov. George Pataki told Goord to ban notorious violent felons from future shows. 6. Boyle is a strong supporter of the Texas Exile program, which seeks long federal prison sentences for violent felons caught with guns. 7. But advocates for the mentally ill say group homes do not accept violent felons. 8. Currently, the national database includes profiles of convicted sex offenders and other violent felons as well as genetic information from crime scenes and missing person cases. 9. He had called for the state to eliminate parole for all violent felons and toughen its treatment of juvenile offenders, but those plans were turned down. 10. He called for an end to parole for all violent felons. |