Parole system needs another look
I don’t believe an admission of guilt should be a requirement to get parole.
But that is pretty well the situation in Canada.
The requirement reared its ugly head again recently when David Scott Hall, convicted of second-degree murder in 2000 in the brutal slaying of Peggy Jo Barkley-Dube, lost his appeal of a Parole Board of Canada decision earlier this year that had denied him unescorted temporary absences from prison
The parole board had refused his request for the unescorted absences b
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