Parole Board trims backlog by a third

by Nick Delgado

Guam - The Guam Parole Board has cut down a majority of the backlog of inmates that have been waiting this past year to go up for their parole hearing. Department of Corrections spokesperson Lieutenant Antone Aguon says the Parole Board has dropped the list by meeting twice a month tackling five to ten cases per hearing.

The Parole Board had nearly one hundred cases backlogged this past year, but Aguon says that number is now at thirty-five. "We are getting them before the board and the one's that are confined here are usually absconders, the one's that ran away from parole, but generally we are on top of it now and it's just getting to the backlog of cases that should have been heard months ago," he said.

Aguon adds the inmates up for parole have withdrawn all complaints and grievances. The backlog was a result of a change in the law that left the Parole Board with a lack of quorum for months.