Re: Question about parole in the US

anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 01:05:54 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
 

There's credit for good behavior. For some crimes, the prisoner can
receive up to a day off in prison for every day of good behavior, but
they remain under sentence and still must report to an officer of the
Prisoner Review Board.

 
How does that work with a life sentence? Which I assume is what a
murderer gets sentenced to if they're in a state without capital
punishment.
 

 
Life sentences are eligible for parole after a couple handfuls of years
which is why Judges took to giving people 200 sentences.
 
On TV I see people get sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of
parole, but I don’t know the judges actually have the authority to do that.

That's a valid sentence in California, but of course the 'progressive'
criminal lovers in the Assembly have passed various escape clauses for
those suffering under such barbaric sentences.

You can now apply for re-sentencing of your life-without-parole (LWOP)
sentence if you meet certain criteria, like sex abuse as a child;(this is
the gambit the Menendi Brothers are using to try to get out of prison).
There's also "elder parole" now where you can be released if you're 55 or
older and have served 20 years. It basically allows murderers and
psychopaths to 'retire' from prison.