NY State Bar Association to Focus on Why Parolees End Up Back Behind Bars

By Susan DeSantis

July 9, 2019

NY State Bar Association to Focus on Why Parolees End Up Back Behind Bars

7.9.2019

By Susan DeSantis

The New York Law Journal quoted Past President Seymour W. James, Jr. on the Task Force on Parole Reform, which he co-chairs. (may require subscription)

New York reincarcerates the second-most defendants in the nation for technical violations of parole such as missing a meeting with a parole officer.

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