University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 1, 1988
Fewer people pardoned by Dukakis
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis has come under Republican fire for granting pardons to more than 230 inmates since 1968, but records show he has not been the issue of the prespereos.
The Massachusetts Civic Interest Council, in a report released Tuesday, said the governor pardoned 323 people between 1983 and 1987, clear records of crimes ranging from five to over 100, 136 cases of breaking and escape.
Nearly one out of 10 or 21 of Dakiks' pardons were granted to people convicted of selling drugs or possessing them with the intent to sell.
and initially funded by state GOP Chairman Michael R. Hancock, the president of the Republican leader. A Bull Durpun, president of the council, said it was not trying to "announce an action" on his budget.
The Civic Interest Council, a nonprofit, research organization founded
State GOP Executive Director Alexander Tennant said the report "is a clear indication that Mike Dukakis is a very liberal, left-wing person. He says one thing about him on crime and he does another."
However, figures provided by the governor's statehouse press office show that Dukaix has granted fewer pardons than his predecessors.
Republican governor John Volegranted 1,324 pardons between 1965 and 1986, and GOP Frank Sargent between 1970 and 1974.
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Although Dukuski granted more pardons between 1853 and 1867 but never between 1867 and 1870, the number of pardons Dukuski allowed during a comparable four-year period is 25.
Dukakis granted 552 pardons during his first term from 1975 to 1978. He was followed by Democrat-later-to-turn-Publican Edward King, who granted 212 pardons from 1979 to 1982
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The 223 pardons granted by Dukas between 1985 and 1987 came from the State Board of Pardons, a committee of the state Parole Board. The full parole board recommended 247 of them, and Dukas rejected 15 of them.
While the number of pardons has been decreasing, the number of criminals being sent to state prisons has increased by 40 percent between 1983 and 2013. When Dawes dropped 13.4 percent, said Dave Wood, a Dukakis press aide.
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The pardoning process is an extensive one that includes input from the
In 1983, 2,053 people were sent to state prisons and in 1987, the number increased that increase in 818 inmates. In 1994, 72 people for drug-related crimes, Wood said.
"Very simply there are more people going to jail and there are hard, clear increases in the number of drug offenders going to jail." Wood said.
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