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     609.12 Parole or discharge.  

    Subdivision 1.    Authority; conditions.  A person sentenced to 
 the commissioner of 
 corrections for imprisonment for a period less than life may be 
 paroled or discharged at any time without regard to length of 
 the term of imprisonment which the sentence imposes when in the 
 judgment of the commissioner of corrections, and under the 
 conditions the commissioner imposes, the granting of parole or 
 discharge would be most conducive to rehabilitation and would be 
 in the public interest.  

    Subd. 2.    Parole required after certain term.  If a sentence 
 of more than five years has been 
 imposed on a defendant for a crime authorizing a sentence of not 
 more than ten years, the commissioner of corrections shall grant 
 the defendant parole no later than the expiration of five years 
 of imprisonment, less time granted for good behavior, unless the 
 commissioner determines with or without hearing that the 
 defendant's parole would not be conducive to rehabilitation or 
 would not be in the public interest.  

    Subd. 3.    Parole; commissioner powers.  All sentences to the 
 commissioner of corrections 
 for the imprisonment of the defendant are subject to the laws 
 relating to parole and the powers of the commissioner of 
 corrections, except as modified in subdivisions 1 and 2, and to 
 all other laws relating to persons in said institutions and 
 their imprisonment. 

    HIST: 1963 c 753 art 1 s 609.12; 1973 c 654 s 15; 1975 c 271 s 
 6; 1983 c 274 s 18; 1986 c 444 

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