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Parole board outlines medical-reprieve criteria, reports 68% grant rate in recent six months
Summary
A representative of the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Parole explained the board's medical reprieve authority, criteria and review process, and said the board granted 20 of 34 requests (68.1%) in the first half of the reporting period; the board also reported 304 reprieves granted over 11 years.
A representative of the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Parole told the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Public Safety that medical reprieves are an executive-clemency tool for prisoners with debilitating, terminal illnesses or who are entirely incapacitated.
The board representative said the authority derives from the state constitution (Article IV, Section 2) and is further defined in OCGA 42-9-43, which allows reprieves for both parole-eligible and parole-ineligible persons who meet narrow medical standards. "If an individual meets all of these criteria, then the board can consider them for a medical reprieve," the representative said, describing the statute's tests for a disease that is…
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