In a WBUR and The Marshall Project podcast, Violation, Professor Daniel Medwed comments on the Jacob Wideman case, who was granted parole in 2016 after spending three decades in prison for killing Eric Kane, his summer camp roommate when they were both 16. Less than nine months after Wideman’s release on home arrest, he was sent back to prison for missing an appointment with a psychologist. He’s been behind bars ever since and now it seems he will stay there, based on an October ruling in which Judge Mark Brain sided with lawyers for the parole board and the corrections department. “The brevity of this opinion was a little like an emphatic period at the end of sentence,” Medwed said. “Reading this made me think the court was signaling, enough is enough.”
