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GRANTHAM v. DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. 57500.

522 So.2d 219 (1988)

Linda GRANTHAM v. MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 2, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alvin M. Binder and Lisa B. Milner, Binder, Milner & Milner, Jackson, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman and Mike Moore, Attys. Gen. by Robert L. Gibbs, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellees.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, C.J., and ROBERTSON and ANDERSON, JJ.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

Today's appeal arises from a tragedy that touches the heart and sears the soul of our parole system, yet we confront the reality that the system may not be sued. We know that possibility of parole is an indispensable part of a correctional policy with any hope of doing more good than harm. To the prisoner possibility of parole is hope itself. As well, we know the painful lesson of recidivism: that among those paroled...

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