A local assemblyman has unveiled a new package of parole bills, aimed at preventing the most dangerous convicted criminals and domestic terrorists from being granted parole or clemency. At a press conference yesterday in New City, Rockland Assemblyman Mike Lawler said in the last few years, too many cop killers, like the Brinks participants, have been released early, and that has to stop…
Among other things, the bills would result in an equal number of Parole Board appointments for majority and minority leaders in the Legislature, and give the Governor the ability to override the Parole Board.