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Last year, Virginia’s parole board considered more than 26-hundred cases, recording decisions day by day. The only way prisoners’ families or lawyers could find out what happened was to go, page by page, through the records. Now, students at UVA’s law school have fixed that – creating a database that will allow for specific searches and big-picture analysis of how the board works. Sandy Hausman has that story.
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