{"id":77732,"date":"2020-09-29T13:01:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T10:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/state-gop-introduces-bill-to-strengthen-parole-board-oversight\/"},"modified":"2020-09-29T13:01:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T10:01:03","slug":"state-gop-introduces-bill-to-strengthen-parole-board-oversight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/state-gop-introduces-bill-to-strengthen-parole-board-oversight\/","title":{"rendered":"#State GOP introduces bill to strengthen parole board oversight"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#State GOP introduces bill to strengthen parole board oversight<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n ALBANY \u2014 Outraged over the Cuomo administration\u2019s recent stream of parole app<\/a>rovals for convicted cop-killers Herman Bell and Anthony Bottom and murderer-rapist Samuel Ayala, Republican state lawmakers are introducing a new bill giving the Legislature more oversight of the state parole board.<\/p>\n

State Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay (R-Syracuse) and Assemblyman Joseph Giglio (R-Gowanda) are introducing a bill that would strengthen legislative surveillance over the state Parole Board, slamming recent releases of individuals and arguing they do not take into account the feelings of victims.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe recent decisions by the parole board granting release to violent offenders such as Samuel Ayala and Herman Bell and Anthony Bottom are textbook examples of what\u2019s wrong with this board. If these heinous actions don\u2019t warrant a full sentence, what does?\u201d Barclay seethed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to continue to fight for the victims of violent crimes and create laws that help protect them, not make it more difficult for them to get on with their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York state\u2019s pro-criminal mentality has reached a boiling point. Simply put, victims are treated as second class while convicted felons are given priority,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Ayala, 68, was granted parole earlier this month following 43 years behind bars for raping and murdering two women \u2014 as their children heard their screams in the room next door.<\/p>\n

Bell, now in his early 70s, was convicted of murdering NYPD officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones in 1971, and was sprung in April 2018.<\/p>\n

The former Black Revolutionary Army soldier\u2019s accomplice \u2014 68-year-old Anthony Bottom \u2014 is set to be paroled as early as this October.<\/p>\n

The new legislation would allow the state Senate and Assembly to remove any one of the state\u2019s 19-member parole board commissioners by a majority vote \u2014 right now only state law solely grants the governor removal powers.<\/p>\n

It would also require a minimum of three members to interview inmates seeking parole prior to a decision, as current state law only requires the sign off of two officials.<\/p>\n

Lastly, the bill would require a unanimous vote of the three members ahead of each determination on parole. Currently only a majority consensus is required.<\/p>\n

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Samuel Ayala, a Level 3 sex offender, was granted parole after 43 years in prison for the 1977 rape and murder of two housewives.<\/span>Associated Press Photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Family members who lost loved ones at the hands of Bell, Bottom and Ayala backed the proposal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been giving victim impact statements since 2002,\u201d recounted the widow of slain NYPD cop Joseph Piagentini, 76-year-old Diane Piagentini.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just six months between statements and any changes to the parole hearings are in the hands of the inmates \u2014 and the burden is on the victims. We are living the horrendous killings of our families every two years. We don\u2019t even know if the commissioners actually read our statements,\u201d she told The Post, adding each time she appealed to the board against the release of Bell and Bottom she relived the nightmarish pain and hurt associated with her husband\u2019s death, over four decades ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes me three days to write a statement. My daughters were 3 years old and 15 months when my husband was killed. What the parole board is basically doing now is they are only taking into consideration what the inmate has done in prison, they are not taking into consideration the heinousness of the crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou as the victim have to be proactive in finding out what\u2019s going on,\u201d she said, explaining she along with family members waited for weeks before they found about Bell\u2019s parole approval \u2014 only after calling the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision on her own.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve felt that throughout all these years, especially in these later years that Cuomo is our governor and you must be proactive now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jason Minter, 50, was only six years old when Samuel Ayala took his mother Bonnie Minter and friend Shelia Watson into a room in Rockland County before raping and killing both women.<\/p>\n

He said the last time he saw his mother\u2019s rapist and murderer, Ayala was laughing and running out the door after committing the twin murders.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy concern is that he will be frustrated and I\u2019ve been the most vocal in keeping him in \u2014 he\u2019s used my name in the past. It\u2019s always \u201cJason Minter and the Watson family,\u201d The last thing I heard was him laughing that he raped and shot my mother and ran out laughing,\u201d he told The Post, adding he plans to install cameras outside his house.<\/p>\n

Ayala was authorized for release on Sept. 3, but has remained in custody as DOCCS has yet to approve his housing assignment.<\/p>\n

Minter said in the past he has retold his horrific story to the parole board in person, but this year due to COVID-19 restrictions he was forced to provide his impact statement via phone call.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey wouldn\u2019t do a Zoom meeting \u2014 I was on vacation in the mountains and had to drive to get service and then sit on the phone and tell someone about how my mother was brutally raped and murdered \u2014 only to have this very board tell the world and the state that this guy now feels remorseful and wants to be released.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s dehumanizing it makes you feel almost like you\u2019re the perpetrator, you\u2019re the one who did something wrong. It makes you feel like you did something wrong and the state is making the case that this monster should be able to walk the streets with my 11-year-old.\u201d<\/p>\n

The early release of Judith Clark in May 2019 similarly sparked outrage after Gov. Andrew Cuomo commuted the former Weather Underground radical and Brink\u2019s robbery getaway driver\u2019s 75-years-to-life sentence to 35-years-to-life in 2016 \u2014 marking another case that sparked outrage among victims\u2019 family members.<\/p>\n

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Judith Clark<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The infamous 1981 Brink\u2019s robbery resulted in the death of Nyack Officers Edward O\u2019Grady and Waverly Brown of the Nyack Police Department and security guard\/driver Peter Paige.<\/p>\n

Bob Dennison, who served as the Parole Board chairman under former Gov. George Pataki, marked Clark\u2019s release as a turning point.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat sent a message to the Parole Board. They\u2019re much more liberal in granting release to convicts who have long sentences,\u201d he said during an interview in May.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Cuomo has also signed off on the release of thousands of inmates within the past couple months, citing concerns over more compromised, or older individuals contracting COVID-19 while in a congregate setting.<\/p>\n

The legislation has yet to receive a sponsor in the state Senate, and is subject to a majority vote by the Democratic-controlled Legislature.<\/p>\n

A DOCCS spokesman told The Post the agency does not comment on pending legislation.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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