Parole Bill H.R. 4036 Update
FedCURE News and Legislative Update on H.R. 4036.
Rewrite of H.R. 4036.
A bill to revive the system of parole for all federal offenders.
On Thursday, 27 January 2005, FedCURE's Dr. Kenny Linn, J.D., LL.M., traveled to Washington, DC to meet with United States Representative Danny Davis' staff regarding the pending bill to revive the system of parole for all federal offenders (H.R. 4036). Dr. Linn was a bit apprehensive that changes were going to be made to the language FedCure had proposed, specifically that some inmates would be excluded from the parole bill.
House staff are nervous that a Charles Manson or a Willie Horton would come back to haunt them! They wanted to exclude those who had committed "heinous" crimes. We fiddled with language that could exclude those who had committed "capital" crimes. As it stands now, FedCURE can thank legislative counsel for leaving FedCURE's language alone. Rep. Danny Davis' staff was convinced by that person that since the old parole bill made everyone eligible, one would be asking for problems by putting in new wording that would change the old parole statute in that respect.
In addition, FedCURE went over a new section that would reinstate the old good time allowances with some tinkering to add a few extra days monthly for what we are calling "Superior Program Achievement." Presently, we have three kinds of extra good time in he bill. FedCURE is waiting for comments from the legislative counsel on that section. We hope to hear something relating to the bills introduction, to the 109th Congress, in the very near future. Rep. Davis' staff is trying to decide how to present the bill (i.e. before seeking co-sponsors or after, with fanfare or without, using a celebrity or not).
We are interested in comments if someone personally knows a celebrity that might want to be at an introduction ceremony to publicly support the bill. Please e-mail: FedCURE@FedCURE.org
FedCURE has promised Rep. Davis that we will have thousands (not hundreds) of people calling their representatives and senators when this bill is introduced. We cannot let him down.
FedCURE FCC Coleman Presentation.
Dr. Linn is once again tentatively scheduled to speak to the inmates at USP Coleman and Coleman LOW on 16 February 2005.
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