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lot of people aren’t paroled on their parole eligibility date because the Parole Board may not have met,” Luke said. “About 90 percent of first-time felons are released on or soon after their PED, though.”
Those prisoners who are denied parole by the Parole Board are subject to the Mandatory Parole Release Date (MPRD). The MPRD was developed because “the legislators wanted those prisoners not granted parole by the Parole Board to have some supervision and help as they completed their sentence(s),” wrote Russell Wilson, author of a DOC booklet on time computation.
Under the MPRD regulation, six months is deducted from a prisoner’s full sentence date with good-time credits computed from that reduced sentence.
A Class I prisoner, for instance, would be released three months earlier than his or her full sentence date to meet the MPRD. Prisoners released under MPRD are placed on
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