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We need 10,000 signatures.  Presently, we have 3,360 people who have signed the petition. Here’s the actual petition: 

We, the undersigned, join with Reform Georgia 7 in urging you to pass the initiative to end excessive parole denial without due process.

Excessive Parole Release Denial is a modern-day epidemic of mass incarceration that affects millions of prisoners in the United States.  According to the 2019 Prison Policy Initiative, 1, 291, 000 people are locked up in state prisons.  As of July 2020, 53, 094 prisoners are housed in Georgia prisons.  The End Excessive Parole Denial Initiative would strengthen the state and federal law to improve parole board transparency, relative to a fair parole release. 

Georgia Parole Board contributes to hindering the successive release of parolees because of their poor policies and poor practices.   Prison Staff are not helping the incarcerated to parole.  There is no transparency in the Parole Board.  The principles and policies of the parole board, relative to parole release, are not transparent.  The person seeking parole does not have the opportunity to meet face-to-face with the parole board.  Whenever there is a change in the duration of confinement, there has to be procedural due process protection, as a state created liberty interest. Unfortunately, Georgia Parole Board does not have a constitutional right to parole people.  But, when the state establishes parole, all parolees have the right to constitutional due process.

Now, we need your support for the END EXCESSIVE PAROLE DENIAL INITIATIVE to ensure that men and women in Georgia, who are eligible for parole, are not being denied parole for the same reasons, as opposed to parole release consideration because of their performance initiative, institutional records, educational record, work record, etc.

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