Tagged: deportation

3:58pm

Wed October 12, 2011
Texas

Parole Changes for Foreign-Born Inmates

Credit Photo by Caleb Bryant Miller for KUT News

A new law that took effect on September 1st may make it easier for foreign-born criminal offenders in Texas to meet parole eligibility requirements, if they are subsequently deported. The law, authored by Representative Jerry Madden, R-Richardson, is designed to ease the state’s financial burden by deporting non-citizens instead of supporting their parole.

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