Comments on: Sarah Jane Moore — Would-Be Assassin of Gerald Ford Freed After 32 Years

By: jonathanturley

jonathanturley — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:08:20 +0000

Jon:

I just testified in the House of Representatives on a proposed bill to allow early release for non-violent offenders in the federal system. It is currently very hard in the federal system absent a terminal disease and less than a year to live. States without parole are left with the commutation system, which has a low success rate.

By: Jon Katz - Underdog

Jon Katz - Underdog — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:02:56 +0000

Hi, Jonathan- Thanks for this blog entry, which provides plenty more information than I previously knew about Ms. Moore and Ms. Fromme in relation to their arrests, convictions, and behavior as prisoners.

Seeing that you direct the Project for Older Prisoners (POPS), do you have any information on the possibility of getting parole eligibility returned at least for older prisoners in the federal system and in other jurisdictions that ended the parole option?

It strikes me as odd that Lynette Fromme ever would have been housed at Alderson, which was very low security, at least by the time Martha Stewart got there.

By: Vigilante

Vigilante — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:27:46 +0000

Personally, I would never have this bitch Sara Jane Moore released from prison. In the USA, it should be mandated that all assassins, even would-be assassins, die in prison. Political assassinations strike at the very heart of a country’s polity, community.