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Laws let parole board wait 5 years to review certain inmates - WWMT-TV

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signs legislation to allocate $1.5 billion in economic development spending for businesses during a ceremony, Monday, Dec. 20, 2021, in Detroit. The legislation creates the Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve Fund, which will be funded from state revenue with $1 billion to be used for assistance to companies. The legislation, which includes four bills, passed the GOP-led Legislature with bipartisan support. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signs legislation to allocate $1.5 billion in economic development spending for businesses during a ceremony, Monday, Dec. 20, 2021, in Detroit. The legislation creates the Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve Fund, which will be funded from state revenue with $1 billion to be used for assistance to companies. The legislation, which includes four bills, passed the GOP-led Legislature with bipartisan support. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — New laws allow the Michigan Parole Board to delay reviews of killers and other violent offenders so they occur every five years instead of every one or two years.

The bipartisan measures signed Friday by Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer address what supporters say was an unintended consequence of a 2018 law changing parole rules.

The legislation was spurred by victims who survived Lansing-area serial killer Don Miller.

Among the changes in the 2018 law was a provision that shortened the maximum period between parole reviews for an inmate who was denied despite having a high or average probability of release.



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