clipped from www.nytimes.com On Parole Ángel Franco/The New York Times Diana Ortiz spent 18 years at the Bedford Hills prison. Robert Dennison was chairman of the Parole Board the freed her. Also shown, a portion of the transcript from one of her parole hearings. By TRYMAINE LEE DIANA ORTIZ waited in a cagelike room at the Fishkill Correctional Facility that winter morning in 2005, going over it in her head again and again. She needed to find the right words, conjure the right emotions, strike the right balance between remorse for her role in the killing of an off-duty police officer and recognition of all that she had accomplished in the 22 ½ years since. She wanted to explain how she had blossomed behind bars, earning a high school equivalency diploma and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in prison; how she barely recognized the wispy, naïve 18-year-old who had fallen for a man twice her age, become addicted to drugs and posed as a prostitute to set up a robbery that turned deadly.