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The way the Parole Board decides which prisoners will be freed on parole is being challenged by two of the country's most high-profile rapists.
Michael John Carroll and Alan Brian Miller, who are on preventive detention for five and three rapes respectively, allege the board is neither independent nor impartial, the Sunday Star Times reported yesterday.
The men want the Parole Board sacked and, among a number of remedies, want to be released immediately. Carroll, who has spent about 20 years behind bars for the rapes, most committed while on parole, was freed in February 2003 but recalled to jail six months later after breaching bail conditions.
Miller, who was jailed in 1991, claimed he had spent longer in jail than he should have because he was refused rehabilitation for sex offending and aggression against women until 2007.
A 10-day hearing has been set down in the High Court at Wellington in June.
