Missouri's parole system has sent thousands back to prison for minor violations. Terrell Robinson is
Terrell Robinson has served 12 years in a Missouri prison for a parole violation that he says officials have never made clear to him much less given him a chance to explain.
Last month, the MacArthur Justice Center filed a petition asking for his immediate release. The suit says Robinsons parole was illegally revoked in 2007 because his arrest denied him the right to counsel and violated his due process rights.
As lawyers who have litigated these issues for years and are familiar with the process, we could not decipher why his parole was revoked, and why he was sent back to prison, Amy Breihan, co-director of the MacArthur Justice Center, said on Fridays St. Louis on the Air.
Robinsons case is just one example of unfair revocations by Missouri's Parole Board, Breihan said. Thousands more exist and some people in prison because of them may not even know it.
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