CONTACT: Russ Marlan, Public Information Officer (517) 373-6391
The Michigan Parole and Commutation Board will hold a public hearing on
Monday, September 21, 2009
to consider the possible parole of Benjamin Lee Jones, #223259. It will be at
11:00 a.m.
at the
Handlon
Training
Center, Richard Handlon Correctional Facility,
Ionia, MI.
Benjamin Lee Jones is serving a Life sentence for the crime of Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Deliver Over 650 Grams of Cocaine. He was sentenced on March 18, 1992 from Kent County.
Barbara Sampson, Chairperson of the Michigan Parole and Commutation Board, will conduct the hearing under the provisions of the Lifer Law, MCLA 791.234.
By Statute, prisoners serving a life sentence under
MCL
333.74012A1, must serve 15, 17 1/2 or 20 calendar years, based on predetermined factors, before the parole and commutation board can obtain jurisdiction.