Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Illusion of Parole Gordon PackA fter serving 12 years and 11 months of a life sentence, I became eligible for parole consideration in 1992.However, 26 years and ten parole hearings later, I still do not know what I must do to obtain parole, and will they ever release me nor when or if I will ever be released.I am among a growing segment of men and women likely to die in prison because Maryland's parole scheme lacks discretionary standards and guidelines aff ording meaningful release consideration.Maryland courts impose three distinct terms of life: (1) life with parole eligibility after serving 15 years less earned diminution credit; (2) life with parole eligibility after serving 25 years less earned diminution credit; and(3) life without the possibility of parole. 1 Prior to the birth of Maryland's notorious "life means life" standard, lifers were recommended and approved for release regularly.According to the Maryland Justice Policy, Inc., 92 of 155 lifers recommended for parole were released between 1970 and 1978; 65 of 88 lifers recommended for parole were released between 1979 and 1986; and 36 of 91 lifers recommended for parole were released between 1987 and 1994. 2 However, only one prisoner serving a life sentence has been paroled outright since 1994.Parole is a conditional early release from a prison sentence.3 For prisoners other than lifers, parole is viewed as an integral component of penal policy as it incentivizes good behaviour, serving as a reward for rehabilitation, a management tool to limit overcrowding, and to cut the costs of incarceration.Traditionally, Maryland Courts have held that the mere existence of a parole system does not create a constitutionally protected liberty interest.4 As early release from a prison sentence is a privilege, prisoners do not have a constitutional right to be paroled.However, do parole eligible lifers have a legal right to meaningful parole consideration?In 1999, the MD Court of Special Appeals answered: Under the Maryland statutory scheme, until the Governor approves a parole recommendation for a lifer, and the court serves the inmate with an Order for Parole, the inmate has no due process right to parole or a parole hearing, and thus, has no liberty interest in meaningful parole consideration.Because appellant does not have a liberty interest in
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.025 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.027 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".