Michelle Carter, the Massachusetts woman who was convicted in 2017 of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging her boyfriend via text messages and phone calls to kill himself, will remain in prison after her parole was denied Friday.
Carter, 22, who began serving a 15-month jail sentence this February, appeared at a parole hearing Thursday to seek early release from prison. However, the parole board said it was “troubled” that Carter had not only encouraged her 18-year-old boyfriend, Conrad Roy, to kill himself but also “actively prevented others in intervening in his suicide.”
After Carter was found guilty two years ago, the trial judge, Lawrence Moniz, allowed her to remain free until her state appeals were exhausted.
Carter began her sentence in the Bristol County House of Corrections, but in July she was moved out of the facility. The Bristol County Sheriff’s Office refused to provide details on where or why she was transferred. However, she was sent back to the facility after her parole was denied. Her release date is March 13, 2020.
The parole board said that Carter’s “self-serving statements and behavior” before and after Roy’s suicide in 2014 “appear to be irrational and lacked sincerity.”
The board added that Carter’s appeal for early release did not provide enough insight into the reasons for her “lack of empathy” at the time of Roy’s death and after his suicide.
Her lawyer, Daniel Marx, declined to comment Friday.
“She has been a model inmate,” Jonathan Darling, a spokesperson for the Bristol County Sheriff, told BuzzFeed News on Friday.
He said that Carter attended programs at the jail, had no discipline issues, and was polite to staff, volunteers, and other inmates.
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