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    The Long Wait

    Aging prisoners left to arbitrary process to win release

    By Emily Hoerner and Jeanne Kuang | October 2, 2017

    A state board uses an arbitrary and opaque process to decide whether prisoners convicted of committing violent crimes decades ago should be released, an Injustice Watch review has found. The process is wracked by subjectivity, and that problem is not confined to Illinois.

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