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Parole board grants release to electrician trustee with no-contact conditions
Summary
The Louisiana parole committee granted parole to Mark Ritchie, a long-serving maintenance trustee and master electrician, after hearing victim‑acknowledgement letters, strong staff support and a reentry plan; the board attached no‑contact and counseling conditions.
The Committee on Parole voted to grant parole to inmate Mark Ritchie on Sept. 9, 2025, after considering his 20 years of incarceration, institutional record and community reentry plan. The board approved release with special conditions that Ritchie avoid contact and proximity with his victims and participate in recovery meetings.
Ritchie, 1 of the maintenance trustees assigned to the State Police Barracks, spoke to the panel and offered “sincere” remorse for the armed robberies that led to his incarceration. "I'm very sorry to the victims of my crimes," he said, naming Grover Smith, Kylie Bordelon and Glenda Sanderlyn. He told the board he had been sober in…
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