JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:
In 1998, the New York legislature passed a sentencing reform statute that changed the sentencing scheme for violent felony offenders by eliminating parole and requiring a term of post-release supervision ("PRS") to follow determinate sentences. See N.Y. Penal Law § 70.45(1); People v. Catu,
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