An attorney is not required to be reviewed for parole or to argue for a prisoner’s release when the prisoner is parole eligible. But I do believe a clear fact based presentation of an argument consistent with the Parole Guidelines is the best way to show a prisoner is deserving of parole.I travel all over The State of Texas and see all of my clients in person. I go to all of the units in the TDCJ system and I do presentations to all of the parole board offices around the state. The Texas parole system is large, complex, and ever changing. I believe it requires knowledge and experience to properly evaluate cases, parole expectations and trends of the Board to effectively argue for a client’s parole.The biggest problem I see in the Texas parole review process is paperwork overload. In each prisoner’s parole file there is support information, possible protest information, police and arrest history, court and supervision information, and unit parole information. In addition there are evaluations, summaries, and expectations in these areas. This is a lot to review for each vote. In each vote there is a parole summary created by the IPO office that is sent to the Commissioner who votes the file. I believe the entire parole board is dedicated in their efforts to review each case a s thoroughly as possible. The problem is the task they are faced with on a continuous basis. I believe it is too difficult to look at all of the information in each prisoner’s file when making a vote. I think it is a full time job to just review the IPO summaries and cast votes in this way. To ask or expect the Board to review all of the information in every file is unrealistic. The paperwork in this process is simply too much work under the current system. Because of this paperwork overload, in my opinion, the key to parole presentations are direct discussions with Parole when they are reviewing and voting cases. I feel all of the parole personnel are generous with their time and very open minded towards family and attorney arguments. But if you are relying on packets to add paperwork and somehow impact the process, I think that approach ignores too much. My experience with the prison system and arguing parole cases for 30 years benefits my clients by communicating my client’s strengths and respecting the parole voters’ time. My office is small enough to address individual concerns and to still allow me to individually visit each client and to personally make each presentation. The volume in my office allows me to keep my fees low and to maintain great contact with entire parole and TDCJ prison system.
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