By CHRIS WADE / THE CENTER SQUARE
Aging or rehabilitated prisoners should be released sooner into society to save taxpayers’ money.
This, according to group of Democratic New York congressional lawmakers who want the state to approve a controversial pair of bills that would make it easier for prisoners to be released because of old age or racial bias by parole officials.
One proposal, dubbed the Fair and Timely Parole Act, calls for shifting the focus from the original crime to an individual’s rehabilitation and current risk to public safety in the parole process.
Another bill, the Elder Parole Act, would allow prisoners 55 and older to be released before the end of their sentences to a halfway house or group home setting, among other changes…