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Senate passes bill reforming Prisoner Review Board after trooper’s murderer paroled

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The Kansas Senate on Wednesday approved a bill that would restructure the membership of the Kansas Prisoner Review Board after it paroled the murderer of a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper last year.

The Senate voted 33-7 to pass a bill expanding the size of the board to five members and strips the power of the corrections secretary from appointing the panel.

The three-member board now serves at the pleasure of the corrections secretary and its members are . . .

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