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In a recent interview, Shawn Fisher, formerly incarcerated in Massachusetts, questioned why there is so little interest in parole. He served 32 years for second-degree murder, and is now paroled with a job and his own apartment.
“People are unaware of the parole process and the parole system,” Fisher said, “and by not being aware, there’s no care.”…