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Letter to the Editor

Dec. 24, 2009

Readers React to Parole Coverage

Readers had much to say about Greg Katz's three part series on California's parole system. "Secret Hearings, Few Rights," (Dec. 15); "Parole Defense, at $185 Per Case," (Dec. 16); and "Hope, and Doubt, As Reform Comes to a Broken System," (Dec. 17).

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COLUMN

As an attorney who devotes a significant amount of his practice representing parolees before the Board of Parole Hearings, I found your article to be right on the money, "Secret Hearings, Few Rights," (Dec. 15). Very well done.

One of the key problems with the system is the failure of the [California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation] to have in place a broad set of remedial sanctions other than return to c...

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