Sentences with phrase «paroled felons»

Beginning May 1st, Cuomo's order requires the state Department of Corrections to provide his office with a current list of all paroled felons.

NY Gov. Cuomo grants 3,500 paroled felons the right to vote; Washington, D.C., may allow 16 - year - olds to vote in the 2020 presidential election.

Already in the primary, Nixon has been credited with pushing Cuomo to the left on some issues, including his executive order granting paroled felons the right to vote in the state.

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Forty states enacted truth - in - sentencing statutes, which require felons to serve as much as a full 85 percent of their prison terms without any chance of parole; life sentences now truly mean life.

He then explains that then Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was trying to prevent Jenna's Law, which eliminated parole for first time violent felons, from passing but Faso, who was Assembly Minority Leader at the time, didn't allow that to happen.

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«Jenna was murdered by a violent felon out on parole,» Grieshaber says.

Statute currently says that any felons who are incarcerated or on parole are prohibited from casting a ballot unless they're pardoned or «restored to the rights of citizenship» by the governor.

Grieshaber - Geddes advocated for passage of «Jenna's Law» to end parole for first time violent felons after her daughter, Jenna Grieshaber, was murdered by a parolee in Albany.

The legislators are being joined in their reform efforts by Janice Grieshaber - Geddes, a Manlius mother who successfully advocated for passage of «Jenna's Law» to end parole for first time violent felons after her daughter, Jenna Grieshaber, was murdered by a parolee in Albany.

(In New York, felons may vote only after completing their prison and / or parole terms.)

But prior to the order, convicted felons did not have their voting rights restored until completing their parole.

Alphonso David, the governor's counsel, said Mr. Cuomo would issue an executive order requiring the commissioner of the state's Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to submit a list of every felon currently on parole, as well as a list of those newly eligible for parole, beginning May 1.

Now Brown is championing Prop 57, which would let judges, not prosecutors, decide whether to try juveniles as adults and make it easier for nonviolent felons to earn parole or early release through good behavior and taking part in rehabilitation programs.

In addition to those 35,000 Cuomo will pardon, he plans to issue a pardon to each month's convicted felons as they go on parole.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D.) will be granting all convicted felons in the state who are on parole a pardon, a move that will restore voting rights to more than 35,000 people.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is running for reelection and faces a Democratic primary challenge from actress and education activist Cynthia Nixon, promised to grant 35,000 felons currently on parole in New York State the right to vote.

Appealing to his left flank, Gov. Cuomo announced Wednesday that he's signed an executive order to give convicted felons on parole the right to vote.

George Pataki, as Governor of New York in 2005, abolished any possible parole for violent felons.

On April 18, the governor announced that he intended to restore voting rights to felons on parole, potentially creating 35,000 new voters in the state.

In the one month since Nixon entered the race, Cuomo has put an end to the IDC, said «the facts have changed» about legal recreational marijuana, announced plans to restore voting rights to felons on parole in New York, killed an offshore natural gas pipeline that had been in the works, and issued an executive order to prevent federal immigration official from state buildings.

In 1998, Silver made the news in Syracuse as the man who stalled action on «Jenna's Law,» a bill to curtail parole for violent felons.

The move would be accomplished by pardoning convicted felons on parole, allowing Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sidestep the State Legislature.

The mechanism through which Mr. Cuomo plans to do so is unusual: He would consider pardons for all 35,000 people currently on parole in New York, as well as any new convicted felons who enter the parole system each month.

Mr. Cuomo's executive order would require the commissioner of the state's Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to submit a list of every felon currently on parole, as well as a list of those newly eligible for parole, beginning May 1, said Alphonso David, the governor's counsel.

Mr. Cuomo has pushed his own progressive record, including raising the minimum wage and creating a paid family leave program, as he has pressed forward on new liberal initiatives, most notably promising to restore voting rights to former felons on parole by simultaneously granting 35,000 pardons.

A felon may violate his parole with possession of a gun, but he can have a pit bull.