We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
The Innocent Prisoner's Dilemma: Consequences of Failing to Admit Guilt at Parole Hearings.
- Authors
Medwed, Daniel S.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the consequences of failing to admit guilt at parole hearings. It provides an overview of the origins of parole in the U.S. as well as the contemporary features of parole release decision-making. It explores how a parole board's reliance on prisoner admissions of guilt in the parole release decision intersects and potentially interferes with the efforts of innocent inmates to win their freedom. It recommends several reforms concerning the treatment of inmate claims of innocence at parole hearings.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PAROLE; GUILT (Law); PAROLE boards; ADMISSIONS (Law); PRISONERS; PRESUMPTION of innocence
- Publication
Iowa Law Review, 2008, Vol 93, Issue 2, p491
- ISSN
0021-0552
- Publication type
Article