Yes. It is worse if one is on post release supervision. With post release, you could Mac out your prison sentence and now you will be in the hands of parole who will place you or keep you in prison until you have fulfilled obligations.
So many court cases have been filed and mostly all of them have not succeeded.

Since when did the prison system or parole board have more authority than appellate judges? That is a scary power grab right there. Don’t like a law or rule? Just make up your own and enforce it. Wow !
Sounds like some of the cops I worked with. There were two handbooks on ethics. The one you were given when hired, and the ones some cops made up. I called it the “Secret code of ethics”, although there was nothing ethical about it.
Back then there were no cell phones so bad cops got away with a lot more since there was little to no evidence otherwise. A suspect who was beaten became “Oh he tripped and fell into my patrol car mirror, Three freakin times, can you believe it?”.
Although a lot of them probably deserved it, I was not ok with it because it made the cops as bad as the people being arrested.
My point being, when someone in power doesn’t like the restrictions placed on them, some figure out ways to write their own rules or codes of conduct.

Tired

I guess the only people we can compare to this situation is the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. I am in no way sticking up for terrorist, but even a terrorist should be afforded a trial. How can you hold someone forever without even seeing a judge? So there are some who are worse off.

The “General & un-informed” public hates both categories, terrorist and sex offenders. Most likely the public wouldn’t mind if both were executed by firing squad.

Jacob

The most significant change, however, came in 1983. In that year, sentencing guidelines were enacted, thereby effectively abolishing parole for those offenders who were sentenced for crimes committed on or after October 1, 1983.

Florida Department of Corrections

Cherokeejack, I have an interesting fact about Michigan’s parole system and appealing the Parole Board’s decisions. Appellate judges started siding with inmates and overruling the Board’s decisions denying parole for no truly valid reason, particularly when the inmate was unable to obtain the “required” rehabilitation programs. So the Michigan Legislature simply changed the law to make Parole Board decisions unappealable. In effect, they eliminated due process completely, giving the Parole Board ABSOLUTE power to decide an inmate’s fate, with no requirements to justify their decisions. It was apparent to me during my incarceration that the parole rate in Michigan was guided solely by the purpose of ensuring that all available beds in the prisons were occupied at all times.