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As more states legalize marijuana, people with drug convictions want their records cleared


As more states legalize marijuana, people with drug convictions want their records clearedNation
Updated on May 5, 2021 7:06 PM EDT Published on
May 3, 2021 5:58 PM EDT
Michael has struggled with kidney disease since he was in his early 20s serving in the military. The high stress of the job ultimately put him in the hospital, and he was not able to return to the service due to his condition. The 37-year-old Virginia Beach resident, who requested his name be changed because of concerns about retaliation from future employers, said that a nurse mentioned during that hospital stay that marijuana could help alleviate many of his symptoms, like nausea and vomiting. But at the time, the substance was not legal in Virginia. ....

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Evangelos pushes to restore parole to Maine's justice system - By Douglas Rooks


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Evangelos pushes to restore parole to Maine’s justice system
By Douglas Rooks | Apr 20, 2021
Rep. Jeffrey Evangelos
[Editor’s note: this column was originally published in The Maine Monitor.]
If you are sentenced to a long prison term in Maine, your chances of being released early are almost nil.
In 1976, Maine became the first state to abolish parole entirely, also doing away with the Executive Council, which once shared authority for pardons with the governor. Since then, sentence commutations, another form of early release, have been rare, perhaps non-existent.
Rep. Jeffrey Evangelos (I-Friendship), who is sponsoring the first bill in nearly a decade that would restore parole, says the Department of Corrections cannot find any record of an inmate being released before the original sentence date, minus “good time” credits. ....

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