BISMARCK -- The state Parole Board agreed today to trim 15 months off convicted murderer James Leroy Iverson's prison sentence, but all of his parole will be spent in a prisoners' transition center or halfway house.
Iverson's sentence expires, with or without parole, on Nov. 7, 2010.
Iverson, 69, has spent nearly 40 years in prison for the November 1968 murders of two Grand Forks women and is currently the state's longest-serving inmate.
When he is released next August to the Department of Corrections' Bismarck Transition Center, he will be tracked by GPS system and be constrained by several other conditions, the board said. For the first nine months, he will not be allowed to leave Burleigh and Morton counties and could face continued travel restrictions for the remainder of the 15 months, as well.
He told the board he has no desire to return to Grand Forks.
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Iverson was tried and convicted in 1969.
This past June, Iverson was transferred from the state penitentiary to the Missouri River Correctional Center, a 151-bed minimum security facility just south of Bismarck.
