Editorial: Parole consideration for those sentenced to life behind bars 35 years ago? It’s the right thing to do
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-08-27/editorial-california-reform-life-without-parole

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Editorial: Parole consideration for those sentenced to life behind bars? Yes

Senate Bill 94 follows a sensible path of recent laws and court decisions that permit parole hearings for most people sentenced to life without parole for crimes they committed as juveniles. But it's imperiled by partisan politics.

Los Angeles Times

When News Outlets Fabricate Stories
SB 94 would simply allow judges to consider mitigating circumstances that are important to courts today, but were not thought of three decades ago.
By Devin D. Williams

https://www.laprogressive.com/prison-reform-2/when-news-outlets-fabricate-stories

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Cordell: Allow judges to reconsider life without parole sentences
Retired Santa Clara County Judge LaDoris Cordell is advocating that California should support SB 94, which would allow judges to reconsider life without parole sentences imposed in the 1970s and 1980s for inmates in prisons...

...there are incarcerated individuals who are completely rehabilitated but continue to be warehoused in our prisons for decades and counting. Why?

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/08/15/cordell/amp/

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Cordell: Allow judges to reconsider life without parole sentences

Senate bill reflects changes in California law and evidence of rehabilitation and redemption.

The Mercury News