Why Parole Laws Need an Overhaul

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IF ANYONE needed convincing that certain convicts were meant to spend their full sentences in prison, the proof came last week when the contemptible Joel Steinberg walked out of jail last week and for the first time in 17 years was allowed to inhale the same sweet air that you and your children breathe.

Steinberg is the rat who beat his daughter to death because of the way she looked at him. He's one of the criminals by whom all brutality is measured.

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Why Parole Laws Need an Overhaul

New York law charitably allows early freedom for inmates who have served two-thirds of their sentences. But in Steinberg's case, in typical bureaucratic fashion, one hand had no idea what the other was doing...

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