I didn't understand that responsibility. I didn't. It was an intellectual consideration, and it was a passing thought until those first rounds of applications showed up. In the past, Governors have just simply rejected all the recommendations of the prologue. They didn't read one of them. that was very recent. The last governor was one who really started to shift in terms of that mindset, raised the bar in terms of expectations. (08:04–08:09)
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Asserts that past governors rejected parole recommendations without reading them.
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