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When the Massachusetts Department of Correction denied James Ware’s petition for medical parole in May, the commissioner who oversaw the proceeding acknowledged that the 52-year-old prisoner would likely die in the near future.
“Life expectancy is probably less than 18 months,” reads the denial paperwork, quoting from a physician’s prognosis of Ware…