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Today is a great, long-awaited day for fairness and racial justice, as the Maryland General Assembly voted to override a veto of SB 202, a bill to fix the state’s broken parole system so that Marylanders serving life sentences finally have a chance to earn release. After a difficult, decade-long effort, this new law will …

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Maryland will no longer allow the sitting governor to overturn parole decisions for inmates serving life sentences, removing itself from a list of three states that still give governors that authority. The Maryland General Assembly voted this week to revoke the governor’s ability to reject parole board recommendations, ending a consequential policy that has shaped …

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he Maryland General Assembly began its special session Monday with a relatively quiet start in the House of Delegates, but with jubilation from criminal justice advocates outside the Senate chambers. The Senate convened for more than 90 minutes to override more than a dozen bills Gov. Larry Hogan vetoed earlier this year that included legislation …

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