The three commutations won’t require any prisoner releases, at least not right away. Rather, the Governor said he is “contemplating” those clemency grants will lead to “eligib[ility] for an earlier parole suitability hearing” or, in Fitts’s case, eligibility simply for a parole suitability hearing that would not otherwise be available at all. 

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