Sentencing Law and Policy: Fascinating accounting of Hawaii s unusual sentencing process and increasing minimum terms typepad.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from typepad.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The paroling authority sets the minimum terms that inmates must serve before they can be released from prison, a task that other states assign to judges.
The family of a 32-year-old Kailua-Kona man who was shot and killed in a car he was driving by Hawaii police during a hunt for an attempted murder suspect filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against the two officers and the county.