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This week, \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a> is launching a series to remember some of them. Our first tribute is to Eric Warner, who died of COVID-19 in San Quentin State Prison at age 57. He was born and raised in San Francisco, the son of Filipino immigrants. He was a barber, a boxer and a beloved brother. Eric’s older brother Hank brings us this tribute.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]H[/dropcap]aving an only brother incarcerated for life leaves a hole in your heart. You long for sibling companionship. And guard your secret for fear of shame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up, we collected pollywogs after big rains. We adventured new horizons on bikes, imitated major leaguers in the schoolyard. Life was simple. We happily sang along to Don McLean’s \"American Pie,\" oblivious to the foreshadowing of things to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By our teenage years, Eric and I drifted in opposite directions. As adults, I only saw him at times of crisis, like when he lost his leg in a tragic car accident, or when I visited him at county jails and hard-to-reach penitentiaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869891\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11869891\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/YoungBrothersAtHome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/YoungBrothersAtHome.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/YoungBrothersAtHome-160x119.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric and Hank Warner were born just two years apart. Their mom loved to dress them as twins. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Hank Warner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As he began serving his life sentence, we reconnected through hand-written letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I committed to helping Eric survive. He needed a life of meaning and purpose. For more than 20 years, we talked about spiritual guidance and emotional fulfillment. Like workout partners, we had a regimen for building his mental and emotional strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complete transformation came after he graduated from rehabilitation programs. San Quentin’s intense workshops gave Eric the tools to conquer his demons. He learned how to live a life of redemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869808\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 393px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11869808\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/20-Ages-31-33-Eric-Hank-Brooklyn-Bridge-NYC.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/20-Ages-31-33-Eric-Hank-Brooklyn-Bridge-NYC.jpeg 393w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/20-Ages-31-33-Eric-Hank-Brooklyn-Bridge-NYC-160x226.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric and Hank at the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hank Warner.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“E” – as he was known in the pen – studied law in the prison library. He handled his own appeal and successfully reduced his life sentence. But California’s three strikes law, the root problem to over-sentencing and deadly overpopulation in prisons, prevented him from ever seeing freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His resolve would not be broken. E used his valuable new skills to help hundreds of incarcerated men fight for their legal rights. He became known as the “Prison Lawyer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now, think about advocacy from prison,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829407/were-talking-about-human-beings-released-from-san-quentin-adnan-khan-advocates-for-people-still-inside\">Adnan Khan\u003c/a> in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/akhan1437/videos/305013667279266/?d=n\">tribute video to Eric on Facebook.\u003c/a> Khan was formerly incarcerated himself and now runs a national organization called \u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/\">Re:Store Justice.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From a level-four prison. Doesn't have a law degree. A dude serving a life sentence, but passionate about helping people,\" Khan said. \"He helped others. Never charged no one, and said, 'Just don't forget me when you get out.' That's who Eric was, and is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to me, Eric had Amanda, his fiancee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They met when a close friend introduced his sister-in-law to Eric over the phone. Love letters and phone calls quickly ensued. They inspired one another to live with dignity. Amanda had late-stage cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869812\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11869812\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-800x558.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-800x558.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-1020x711.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-160x112.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-1536x1071.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019.jpeg 1650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hank Warner and Eric's fiancee, Amanda, visiting him in San Quentin in 2019. She died soon after this visit. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hank Warner.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was the only time they met in person. It was magical. I had never seen my brother this happy. That was back in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric talked about their love story, and read a letter to Amanda, in this documentary called “Resilience” — made by Khan and other incarcerated men learning to be filmmakers inside San Quentin:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttDcatgnKKQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, when I saw on the news that there was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826469/shocking-heartbreaking-san-quentin-coronavirus-outbreak-alarms-health-officials\">COVID outbreak in San Quentin\u003c/a>, my heart sank. I didn’t hear from Eric for weeks. We normally talked on the phone every Sunday. But there were no phone calls, no letters, no news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 18, 2020, I received a call from a nurse. Eric was hospitalized. He made it out of prison, only to end up in a hospital close to where we grew up. He had been in the ICU for over a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facetime was the only way we could visit. Eric’s face, dominated by an air mask, filled my iPad screen. The whooshing sound of the breathing machine drowned out his voice. He gasped for life with every breath. Our visits lasted only a few minutes. I was his cheerleader and soother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was just the two of us for seven days, and then he passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11869806\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport-800x921.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"921\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport-800x921.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport-1020x1174.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport-160x184.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport.jpg 1126w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BMX was Eric's favorite sport. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hank Warner.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon after Eric died, I received an overwhelming number of texts and phone messages. Formerly incarcerated men and prison staffers reached out to express their condolences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All had to let me know how much Eric meant to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/akhan1437/status/1341868668733456385?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I couldn’t understand what motivated these people to reach out to me. I didn’t think anyone cared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks later, these same men organized a memorial to honor my brother. More than a dozen friends from San Quentin showed up. Many more couldn’t be there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Eric will always be remembered by friends and family as a kind and warm hearted person. And he was loved by so many,\" said Chanton Bun, his friend and former cellmate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=arts_13889012 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/eric-warner-1920-x-1080-1020x574.jpg']One by one, each person told me what Eric meant to them; how he helped them survive in prison and prepared them to get out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then it hit me – my brother helped so many men reach freedom – in every sense. It was like they owed their lives to him. This blew my mind!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that some time has passed, I am relieved to say that the hole in my heart is mending. I no longer feel ashamed. I admire my brother for shedding past demons and creating a meaningful life by serving others. Eric’s life may have been taken by COVID, but his spirit will live on. He left his legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am proud of my brother Eric William Warner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hank Warner lives in the Los Angeles area. He shared this tribute to his brother, Eric. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you’d like to honor a loved one from a vulnerable community who died from COVID, we'd like to give you space to remember them in your own voice. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865034/memorializing-those-lost-to-covid\">Tell us their story\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Eric Warner died of COVID in San Quentin State Prison at age 57. He was born and raised in San Francisco, the son of Filipino immigrants. His older brother Hank brings us this tribute.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1644020577,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1115},"headData":{"title":"'He Left His Legacy': Losing a Brother to COVID in San Quentin | KQED","description":"Eric Warner died of COVID in San Quentin State Prison at age 57. He was born and raised in San Francisco, the son of Filipino immigrants. 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This week, \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a> is launching a series to remember some of them. Our first tribute is to Eric Warner, who died of COVID-19 in San Quentin State Prison at age 57. He was born and raised in San Francisco, the son of Filipino immigrants. He was a barber, a boxer and a beloved brother. Eric’s older brother Hank brings us this tribute.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">H\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>aving an only brother incarcerated for life leaves a hole in your heart. You long for sibling companionship. And guard your secret for fear of shame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up, we collected pollywogs after big rains. We adventured new horizons on bikes, imitated major leaguers in the schoolyard. Life was simple. We happily sang along to Don McLean’s \"American Pie,\" oblivious to the foreshadowing of things to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By our teenage years, Eric and I drifted in opposite directions. As adults, I only saw him at times of crisis, like when he lost his leg in a tragic car accident, or when I visited him at county jails and hard-to-reach penitentiaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869891\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11869891\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/YoungBrothersAtHome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/YoungBrothersAtHome.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/YoungBrothersAtHome-160x119.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric and Hank Warner were born just two years apart. Their mom loved to dress them as twins. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Hank Warner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As he began serving his life sentence, we reconnected through hand-written letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I committed to helping Eric survive. He needed a life of meaning and purpose. For more than 20 years, we talked about spiritual guidance and emotional fulfillment. Like workout partners, we had a regimen for building his mental and emotional strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complete transformation came after he graduated from rehabilitation programs. San Quentin’s intense workshops gave Eric the tools to conquer his demons. He learned how to live a life of redemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869808\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 393px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11869808\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/20-Ages-31-33-Eric-Hank-Brooklyn-Bridge-NYC.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/20-Ages-31-33-Eric-Hank-Brooklyn-Bridge-NYC.jpeg 393w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/20-Ages-31-33-Eric-Hank-Brooklyn-Bridge-NYC-160x226.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric and Hank at the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hank Warner.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“E” – as he was known in the pen – studied law in the prison library. He handled his own appeal and successfully reduced his life sentence. But California’s three strikes law, the root problem to over-sentencing and deadly overpopulation in prisons, prevented him from ever seeing freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His resolve would not be broken. E used his valuable new skills to help hundreds of incarcerated men fight for their legal rights. He became known as the “Prison Lawyer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now, think about advocacy from prison,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829407/were-talking-about-human-beings-released-from-san-quentin-adnan-khan-advocates-for-people-still-inside\">Adnan Khan\u003c/a> in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/akhan1437/videos/305013667279266/?d=n\">tribute video to Eric on Facebook.\u003c/a> Khan was formerly incarcerated himself and now runs a national organization called \u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/\">Re:Store Justice.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From a level-four prison. Doesn't have a law degree. A dude serving a life sentence, but passionate about helping people,\" Khan said. \"He helped others. Never charged no one, and said, 'Just don't forget me when you get out.' That's who Eric was, and is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to me, Eric had Amanda, his fiancee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They met when a close friend introduced his sister-in-law to Eric over the phone. Love letters and phone calls quickly ensued. They inspired one another to live with dignity. Amanda had late-stage cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869812\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11869812\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-800x558.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-800x558.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-1020x711.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-160x112.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019-1536x1071.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/33-Amandas-Visit-2019.jpeg 1650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hank Warner and Eric's fiancee, Amanda, visiting him in San Quentin in 2019. She died soon after this visit. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hank Warner.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was the only time they met in person. It was magical. I had never seen my brother this happy. That was back in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric talked about their love story, and read a letter to Amanda, in this documentary called “Resilience” — made by Khan and other incarcerated men learning to be filmmakers inside San Quentin:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ttDcatgnKKQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ttDcatgnKKQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Last summer, when I saw on the news that there was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826469/shocking-heartbreaking-san-quentin-coronavirus-outbreak-alarms-health-officials\">COVID outbreak in San Quentin\u003c/a>, my heart sank. I didn’t hear from Eric for weeks. We normally talked on the phone every Sunday. But there were no phone calls, no letters, no news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 18, 2020, I received a call from a nurse. Eric was hospitalized. He made it out of prison, only to end up in a hospital close to where we grew up. He had been in the ICU for over a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facetime was the only way we could visit. Eric’s face, dominated by an air mask, filled my iPad screen. The whooshing sound of the breathing machine drowned out his voice. He gasped for life with every breath. Our visits lasted only a few minutes. I was his cheerleader and soother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was just the two of us for seven days, and then he passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11869806\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport-800x921.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"921\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport-800x921.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport-1020x1174.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport-160x184.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/12-BMX-was-Erics-favorite-sport.jpg 1126w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BMX was Eric's favorite sport. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hank Warner.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon after Eric died, I received an overwhelming number of texts and phone messages. Formerly incarcerated men and prison staffers reached out to express their condolences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All had to let me know how much Eric meant to them.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1341868668733456385"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>I couldn’t understand what motivated these people to reach out to me. I didn’t think anyone cared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks later, these same men organized a memorial to honor my brother. More than a dozen friends from San Quentin showed up. Many more couldn’t be there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Eric will always be remembered by friends and family as a kind and warm hearted person. And he was loved by so many,\" said Chanton Bun, his friend and former cellmate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13889012","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/eric-warner-1920-x-1080-1020x574.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One by one, each person told me what Eric meant to them; how he helped them survive in prison and prepared them to get out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then it hit me – my brother helped so many men reach freedom – in every sense. It was like they owed their lives to him. This blew my mind!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that some time has passed, I am relieved to say that the hole in my heart is mending. I no longer feel ashamed. I admire my brother for shedding past demons and creating a meaningful life by serving others. Eric’s life may have been taken by COVID, but his spirit will live on. He left his legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am proud of my brother Eric William Warner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hank Warner lives in the Los Angeles area. He shared this tribute to his brother, Eric. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you’d like to honor a loved one from a vulnerable community who died from COVID, we'd like to give you space to remember them in your own voice. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865034/memorializing-those-lost-to-covid\">Tell us their story\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11869618/he-left-his-legacy-losing-a-brother-to-covid-in-san-quentin","authors":["byline_news_11869618"],"programs":["news_26731"],"categories":["news_457","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_29216","news_29360","news_18538","news_29364","news_28005","news_29358","news_29365","news_5056","news_6327","news_4","news_30634","news_22012","news_1773","news_3930","news_29361","news_38","news_23","news_1331"],"featImg":"news_11869875","label":"news_26731"},"news_10454664":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10454664","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10454664","score":null,"sort":[1426518058000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"released-murderers-mentor-other-ex-lifers-on-parole","title":"Released Murderers Mentor Other Ex-Lifers on Parole","publishDate":1426518058,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Getting a job and finding housing you can afford in a new city is hard enough. Imagine doing that as an ex-felon, someone out on parole after decades in prison. After committing murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout California there are now nearly 2,100 ex-lifers, as they're called when they're out on parole. The good news is that an extremely low percentage of them return to prison for committing a new felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, they face a daunting gauntlet of challenges. Now the state Division of Adult Parole Operations is operating four pilot projects in which ex-lifers are helping each other make a successful transition to the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I attended one of their monthly meetings this week in San Francisco. It was held in a cramped windowless room at the parole office in the city's Mission District. Dozens of ex-lifers were there; the vast majority had committed one or more murders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/195757925\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They began with a check-in, going around the room saying their names and how long they've been out of prison. The theme for this day was crime victims and how what these people did affected the lives of so many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most emotional moment involved 62-year-old Linda Candelaria. After 40 years in prison, she expressed her regrets as if her crime had happened yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why did I do it? Why?\" she shrieked, tears streaming from her eyes. \"You know ’cuz they didn't even know me. And yet I went into their home and killed them. For what?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of this meeting, Candelaria was joking with her fellow parolees. But she soon turned deeply serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My victims had a family and I destroyed their family and I destroyed their lives as well,\" she said. \"You can't make up for that, and I could never make up for what I did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candelaria got out on parole three years ago. She \u003cem>still\u003c/em> wonders if she really \u003cem>deserves\u003c/em> to be out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, what do we do to get past that grief?\" she said. \"Not the grief I feel for myself. For them, especially because I took two older people's lives. And for what? For nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This meeting is a support group, an experimental peer mentoring program. It's voluntary and those who come share practical advice, like tips on looking for work and dealing with one \"no\" after another from employers who just aren't willing to take a chance on hiring an ex-felon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10454886\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 507px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10454886\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"Participants in a mentoring program where former lifers help each other adjust to life after decades in prison.\" width=\"507\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-400x245.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-1440x883.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-1180x723.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-768x471.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-320x196.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants in a mentoring program where former lifers help each other adjust to life after decades in prison. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the men, Steve Monger, said the \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">last\u003c/span> thing \u003cem>he\u003c/em> wanted to do was work in a fast-food joint. But the rejections kept piling up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So me and another lifer, we just went in, we was honest with the guy,\" Monger said. \"We said we recently got out of prison. I was in 27, he was in 25, and we want a job. We'll be here on time, we'll work hard for ya. We don't steal from ya. We don't do drugs. You ain't gotta worry about us. You call us, we'll be here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taco Bell hired them both. They've been working there five months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now let's be clear here -- there are plenty of inmates serving life sentences with the possibility of parole who will never, or \u003cem>should\u003c/em> never, get out. It's just too risky. They're sociopaths, or they don't show any remorse for what they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the past few years I've interviewed quite a few lifers -- in and outside prison. And I'm always surprised at how thoughtful and reflective they are -- especially given what they did to land them in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Alisha Nolan Taplett. She was living in Sacramento when she got behind the wheel of a car with some friends out to settle a score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was just looking at myself as the driver in the beginning,\" she admitted. \"Well, I didn't kill anybody. But at the end of the day and every day, I still have to remind myself if it hadn't been for me driving that vehicle, that young woman could still be alive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Taplett what she'd say to a young person today who finds himself or herself in a situation where they're being asked to drive a getaway car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If someone asks you to drive a car and you know that a homicide is going to take place, maybe you should pick up the phone and call 911,\" she said without hesitation. \"But that's one of the things that we fail to do in our communities as well, because we don't want to be labeled as that snitch. If I don't save that person's life by dialing 911, at least I know I tried.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ujMHsVuZMBLez8wgVdd2jscDlJpqZTrD\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are lessons learned the hard way after more than 23 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> \u003c/em>Another ex-lifer I met -- Clinton Thomas -- has been out almost four months. He was very involved in gang culture in Oakland and was convicted of murder in 1991. Behind bars, he said, he turned his life around and now he tries every day to make amends for what he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He helps other former lifers understand how crime victims and their families feel about them getting out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are victims who are still opposed to the fact that so many of us are being paroled,\" he tells the group. \"And there are people who hold onto the belief -- as is their right -- that if you murder my loved one, you don't have a right to live outside a prison.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas urged the former lifers to put themselves in the shoes of their victims to understand how they feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You get over the bitterness because you have to become accountable and take full ownership for your conduct and understand that you created the circumstances under which you live,\" Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 23 years in prison, Thomas said he knew when he got out that no one would owe him anything. He had to earn his way back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew that my life wouldn't become a beer commercial just because I exited the prison gates,\" Thomas told me. \"Women, party, money -- you know? When you look at a beer commercial, there's never any responsibility in it. I was committed to not chasing that aspect of freedom once I came home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right after we talked, Thomas was heading to interview for a job as a cook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parole Agent Martin Figueroa oversees all the ex-lifers in San Francisco County. There are more than 50 now, with a few more being paroled every month. Figueroa helped launch this program in San Francisco. You can tell he really wants these men and women to do well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\"We don’t get any satisfaction in sending anybody back to prison because they failed,\" Figueroa said. \"So we do everything we possibly can to keep them out and keep 'em successful and keep 'em on the right track.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now this mentor program for lifers is happening only in San Francisco, Sacramento, Pomona and Los Angeles. The state hopes to expand it soon.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"There are nearly 2,100 former inmates with life sentences now out on parole in California.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1426296473,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1274},"headData":{"title":"Released Murderers Mentor Other Ex-Lifers on Parole | KQED","description":"There are nearly 2,100 former inmates with life sentences now out on parole in California.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Released Murderers Mentor Other Ex-Lifers on Parole","datePublished":"2015-03-16T15:00:58.000Z","dateModified":"2015-03-14T01:27:53.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10454664 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10454664","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/16/released-murderers-mentor-other-ex-lifers-on-parole/","disqusTitle":"Released Murderers Mentor Other Ex-Lifers on Parole","path":"/news/10454664/released-murderers-mentor-other-ex-lifers-on-parole","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Getting a job and finding housing you can afford in a new city is hard enough. Imagine doing that as an ex-felon, someone out on parole after decades in prison. After committing murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout California there are now nearly 2,100 ex-lifers, as they're called when they're out on parole. The good news is that an extremely low percentage of them return to prison for committing a new felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, they face a daunting gauntlet of challenges. Now the state Division of Adult Parole Operations is operating four pilot projects in which ex-lifers are helping each other make a successful transition to the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I attended one of their monthly meetings this week in San Francisco. It was held in a cramped windowless room at the parole office in the city's Mission District. Dozens of ex-lifers were there; the vast majority had committed one or more murders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/195757925&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/195757925'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They began with a check-in, going around the room saying their names and how long they've been out of prison. The theme for this day was crime victims and how what these people did affected the lives of so many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most emotional moment involved 62-year-old Linda Candelaria. After 40 years in prison, she expressed her regrets as if her crime had happened yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why did I do it? Why?\" she shrieked, tears streaming from her eyes. \"You know ’cuz they didn't even know me. And yet I went into their home and killed them. For what?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of this meeting, Candelaria was joking with her fellow parolees. But she soon turned deeply serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My victims had a family and I destroyed their family and I destroyed their lives as well,\" she said. \"You can't make up for that, and I could never make up for what I did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candelaria got out on parole three years ago. She \u003cem>still\u003c/em> wonders if she really \u003cem>deserves\u003c/em> to be out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, what do we do to get past that grief?\" she said. \"Not the grief I feel for myself. For them, especially because I took two older people's lives. And for what? For nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This meeting is a support group, an experimental peer mentoring program. It's voluntary and those who come share practical advice, like tips on looking for work and dealing with one \"no\" after another from employers who just aren't willing to take a chance on hiring an ex-felon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10454886\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 507px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10454886\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"Participants in a mentoring program where former lifers help each other adjust to life after decades in prison.\" width=\"507\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-400x245.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-1440x883.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-1180x723.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-768x471.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors-320x196.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/LiferMentors.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants in a mentoring program where former lifers help each other adjust to life after decades in prison. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the men, Steve Monger, said the \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">last\u003c/span> thing \u003cem>he\u003c/em> wanted to do was work in a fast-food joint. But the rejections kept piling up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So me and another lifer, we just went in, we was honest with the guy,\" Monger said. \"We said we recently got out of prison. I was in 27, he was in 25, and we want a job. We'll be here on time, we'll work hard for ya. We don't steal from ya. We don't do drugs. You ain't gotta worry about us. You call us, we'll be here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taco Bell hired them both. They've been working there five months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now let's be clear here -- there are plenty of inmates serving life sentences with the possibility of parole who will never, or \u003cem>should\u003c/em> never, get out. It's just too risky. They're sociopaths, or they don't show any remorse for what they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the past few years I've interviewed quite a few lifers -- in and outside prison. And I'm always surprised at how thoughtful and reflective they are -- especially given what they did to land them in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Alisha Nolan Taplett. She was living in Sacramento when she got behind the wheel of a car with some friends out to settle a score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was just looking at myself as the driver in the beginning,\" she admitted. \"Well, I didn't kill anybody. But at the end of the day and every day, I still have to remind myself if it hadn't been for me driving that vehicle, that young woman could still be alive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Taplett what she'd say to a young person today who finds himself or herself in a situation where they're being asked to drive a getaway car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If someone asks you to drive a car and you know that a homicide is going to take place, maybe you should pick up the phone and call 911,\" she said without hesitation. \"But that's one of the things that we fail to do in our communities as well, because we don't want to be labeled as that snitch. If I don't save that person's life by dialing 911, at least I know I tried.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are lessons learned the hard way after more than 23 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> \u003c/em>Another ex-lifer I met -- Clinton Thomas -- has been out almost four months. He was very involved in gang culture in Oakland and was convicted of murder in 1991. Behind bars, he said, he turned his life around and now he tries every day to make amends for what he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He helps other former lifers understand how crime victims and their families feel about them getting out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are victims who are still opposed to the fact that so many of us are being paroled,\" he tells the group. \"And there are people who hold onto the belief -- as is their right -- that if you murder my loved one, you don't have a right to live outside a prison.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas urged the former lifers to put themselves in the shoes of their victims to understand how they feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You get over the bitterness because you have to become accountable and take full ownership for your conduct and understand that you created the circumstances under which you live,\" Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 23 years in prison, Thomas said he knew when he got out that no one would owe him anything. He had to earn his way back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew that my life wouldn't become a beer commercial just because I exited the prison gates,\" Thomas told me. \"Women, party, money -- you know? When you look at a beer commercial, there's never any responsibility in it. I was committed to not chasing that aspect of freedom once I came home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right after we talked, Thomas was heading to interview for a job as a cook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parole Agent Martin Figueroa oversees all the ex-lifers in San Francisco County. There are more than 50 now, with a few more being paroled every month. Figueroa helped launch this program in San Francisco. You can tell he really wants these men and women to do well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\"We don’t get any satisfaction in sending anybody back to prison because they failed,\" Figueroa said. \"So we do everything we possibly can to keep them out and keep 'em successful and keep 'em on the right track.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now this mentor program for lifers is happening only in San Francisco, Sacramento, Pomona and Los Angeles. The state hopes to expand it soon.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10454664/released-murderers-mentor-other-ex-lifers-on-parole","authors":["255"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_6327","news_17835","news_1471","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_10454882","label":"news_72"},"news_10383131":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10383131","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10383131","score":null,"sort":[1419004850000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"new-program-offers-women-lifers-more-hope-of-being-paroled","title":"New Program Offers Women 'Lifers' More Hope of Being Paroled","publishDate":1419004850,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>For most of her three decades in prison, Joyce Largo told herself she didn’t commit murder. She was only the driver, while other teenagers she was with kidnapped and killed a paraplegic man whose van they stole. But now she’s graduating from a program that made her spend months really mapping out all the people affected by her crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to write an impact letter, an impact statement, and it really opened my eyes to my crime. Before, I only saw it in a shallow way,” says Largo. “After I wrote it all out, I was shocked that I had more involvement than I thought I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has been incarcerated since she was 16. Now she's 48. But she says that, until now, there were no in-depth rehabilitation programs for “lifers” in prison like herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/182251213\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Largo is one of about 150 women graduating from a new program at the\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Facilities_Locator/CCWF.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Central California Women's Facility\u003c/a> in Chowchilla, the largest women's prison in the nation. It's a months-long course designed to help prisoners tackle drug and alcohol addiction, anger management and family relationships. They also have to take an intensive class to help them understand the impact of their crimes on victims and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Denial is real. It’s very difficult to look at yourself, especially if you’ve done horrible things,” says inmate Candace MacDonald, who is serving a life sentence for breaking into a 73-year-old man’s home in Eureka and beating and smothering him to death in 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she was high on methamphetamine when she committed the crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"SKDHqrplcZO9yxLK9ViDjDU8EktaT4HN\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of my addiction, I did things that I would never do. Then I hated the things I was doing, so I would do more drugs because I hated the things I was doing,” she adds. “It’s just a horrible cycle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacDonald is now 64 years old, and one of a number of senior citizen inmates who’ve spent most of their adult lives in prison. Some now use walkers or wheelchairs. She says in all her years here, this is the first program that’s truly pushed her to work deeply on herself. It held a mirror to her, made her dig into painful truths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be able to peel that away, and look deep down inside, and gain an understanding of what you have done, and how it affected all of the people around you,” she says. “The ripple effect is incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacDonald has unsuccessfully presented her case before the parole board a number of times over the years, repeating the same testimony she gave at her trial. But after doing this program, she says, she was able to speak from her heart and truly admit her regret. Last week, the board recommended that she be released on parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10383400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10383400 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1-400x281.jpg\" alt=\"Saore Hamilton, 39, of San Francisco has been in prison for 19 years. Her two children, ages 19 and 21, have grown up without her while she’s been incarcerated. “If I had this kind of class outside of prison, in school, I know my crime would not have been committed. All you need is someone that will listen to you and talk to you, and help you, guide you in the right direction. I didn’t have that.” (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\" width=\"384\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saore Hamilton, 39, of San Francisco has been in prison for 19 years. Her two children, ages 19 and 21, have grown up without her while she’s been incarcerated. “If I had this kind of class outside of prison, in school, I know my crime would not have been committed. All you need is someone that will listen to you and talk to you, and help you, guide you in the right direction. I didn’t have that.” (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although prisons like the Central California Women's Facility have offered some substance abuse support groups in the past, the state has never really invested in this kind of rehab for lifers before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Report’s\u003c/em> Scott Shafer has \u003ca href=\"http://audio.californiareport.org/archive/R201405161630/b\" target=\"_blank\">reported on the impact of some of those changes for male prisoners\u003c/a>, including this powerful \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/video-lifer-free-richmond\" target=\"_blank\">video \u003c/a>about lifer James Houston, released on parole in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new program at Chowchilla is the first rehab program for women lifers that's officially recognized by the Board of Parole Hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really signals something very powerful happening inside of California’s prisons,” says Dana Simas. a spokeswoman for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says nearly 800 California inmates serving life sentences have been released on parole this year, compared with just 25 in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shift comes as California is under a U.S. Supreme Court order to relieve prison overcrowding. But Simas says that’s not why lifers are getting paroled. It has more to do with a 2008 state Supreme Court hearing that made it harder to deny parole to inmates no longer considered dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been given an opportunity for redemption. And we hope they take advantage of that, because it’s something that didn’t happen before,” adds Simas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduating from the rehab program at Chowchilla by no means guarantees parole. Inmates still have to go before the parole board and make their case, and the governor can block their release with a veto. Gov. Jerry Brown, though, is allowing around 80 percent of parole recommendations to move forward, far more than previous governors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Simas underscores that the women have to follow through with changing their lives and behavior if they’re paroled. Otherwise, they’ll go back to prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of increasing parole rates for lifers who have committed crimes like murder is controversial. It raises concerns from family members and victims rights groups. But one group that generally opposes paroling more inmates says this kind of program might work because it’s for women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may sound macho, says Michael Rushford of the Sacramento-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjlf.org/about/bioMDR.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Criminal Justice Legal Foundation\u003c/a>, but he thinks women in prison for life are less likely to reoffend if they’re paroled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the chances of success are higher,” he says. “Especially if they’re well supervised. Everybody behaves differently when they’re watched, I’m afraid. These ladies need to be kept an eye on and to be given skills, so they cannot hook up with another gangbanger and go down the bad road again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent graduation at the prison, a visiting room with cinderblock walls is dressed up in purple tablecloths and paper flowers. There is cake, and plenty of cheering and tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Largo, a Kumeyaay tribal member, steps up to a podium to sing a Native American song to her fellow prisoners. Most of them haven’t been outside prison walls for decades. But they’re more hopeful now than ever that they may soon be paroled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you guys can imagine sitting on top of a cliff, and you’re looking around you, you could see the river flowing, the rocks, the mountains, the trees. Just for the few minutes I sing this song, you guys turn into that eagle and you fly.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Chowchilla provides intensive classes examining impact of crimes on victims, relatives and others.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1490894817,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":1214},"headData":{"title":"New Program Offers Women 'Lifers' More Hope of Being Paroled | KQED","description":"Chowchilla provides intensive classes examining impact of crimes on victims, relatives and others.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"New Program Offers Women 'Lifers' More Hope of Being Paroled","datePublished":"2014-12-19T16:00:50.000Z","dateModified":"2017-03-30T17:26:57.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10383131 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10383131","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/19/new-program-offers-women-lifers-more-hope-of-being-paroled/","disqusTitle":"New Program Offers Women 'Lifers' More Hope of Being Paroled","path":"/news/10383131/new-program-offers-women-lifers-more-hope-of-being-paroled","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For most of her three decades in prison, Joyce Largo told herself she didn’t commit murder. She was only the driver, while other teenagers she was with kidnapped and killed a paraplegic man whose van they stole. But now she’s graduating from a program that made her spend months really mapping out all the people affected by her crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to write an impact letter, an impact statement, and it really opened my eyes to my crime. Before, I only saw it in a shallow way,” says Largo. “After I wrote it all out, I was shocked that I had more involvement than I thought I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has been incarcerated since she was 16. Now she's 48. But she says that, until now, there were no in-depth rehabilitation programs for “lifers” in prison like herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/182251213&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/182251213'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Largo is one of about 150 women graduating from a new program at the\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Facilities_Locator/CCWF.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Central California Women's Facility\u003c/a> in Chowchilla, the largest women's prison in the nation. It's a months-long course designed to help prisoners tackle drug and alcohol addiction, anger management and family relationships. They also have to take an intensive class to help them understand the impact of their crimes on victims and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Denial is real. It’s very difficult to look at yourself, especially if you’ve done horrible things,” says inmate Candace MacDonald, who is serving a life sentence for breaking into a 73-year-old man’s home in Eureka and beating and smothering him to death in 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she was high on methamphetamine when she committed the crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of my addiction, I did things that I would never do. Then I hated the things I was doing, so I would do more drugs because I hated the things I was doing,” she adds. “It’s just a horrible cycle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacDonald is now 64 years old, and one of a number of senior citizen inmates who’ve spent most of their adult lives in prison. Some now use walkers or wheelchairs. She says in all her years here, this is the first program that’s truly pushed her to work deeply on herself. It held a mirror to her, made her dig into painful truths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be able to peel that away, and look deep down inside, and gain an understanding of what you have done, and how it affected all of the people around you,” she says. “The ripple effect is incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacDonald has unsuccessfully presented her case before the parole board a number of times over the years, repeating the same testimony she gave at her trial. But after doing this program, she says, she was able to speak from her heart and truly admit her regret. Last week, the board recommended that she be released on parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10383400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10383400 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1-400x281.jpg\" alt=\"Saore Hamilton, 39, of San Francisco has been in prison for 19 years. Her two children, ages 19 and 21, have grown up without her while she’s been incarcerated. “If I had this kind of class outside of prison, in school, I know my crime would not have been committed. All you need is someone that will listen to you and talk to you, and help you, guide you in the right direction. I didn’t have that.” (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\" width=\"384\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saore Hamilton, 39, of San Francisco has been in prison for 19 years. Her two children, ages 19 and 21, have grown up without her while she’s been incarcerated. “If I had this kind of class outside of prison, in school, I know my crime would not have been committed. All you need is someone that will listen to you and talk to you, and help you, guide you in the right direction. I didn’t have that.” (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although prisons like the Central California Women's Facility have offered some substance abuse support groups in the past, the state has never really invested in this kind of rehab for lifers before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Report’s\u003c/em> Scott Shafer has \u003ca href=\"http://audio.californiareport.org/archive/R201405161630/b\" target=\"_blank\">reported on the impact of some of those changes for male prisoners\u003c/a>, including this powerful \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/video-lifer-free-richmond\" target=\"_blank\">video \u003c/a>about lifer James Houston, released on parole in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new program at Chowchilla is the first rehab program for women lifers that's officially recognized by the Board of Parole Hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really signals something very powerful happening inside of California’s prisons,” says Dana Simas. a spokeswoman for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says nearly 800 California inmates serving life sentences have been released on parole this year, compared with just 25 in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shift comes as California is under a U.S. Supreme Court order to relieve prison overcrowding. But Simas says that’s not why lifers are getting paroled. It has more to do with a 2008 state Supreme Court hearing that made it harder to deny parole to inmates no longer considered dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been given an opportunity for redemption. And we hope they take advantage of that, because it’s something that didn’t happen before,” adds Simas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduating from the rehab program at Chowchilla by no means guarantees parole. Inmates still have to go before the parole board and make their case, and the governor can block their release with a veto. Gov. Jerry Brown, though, is allowing around 80 percent of parole recommendations to move forward, far more than previous governors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Simas underscores that the women have to follow through with changing their lives and behavior if they’re paroled. Otherwise, they’ll go back to prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of increasing parole rates for lifers who have committed crimes like murder is controversial. It raises concerns from family members and victims rights groups. But one group that generally opposes paroling more inmates says this kind of program might work because it’s for women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may sound macho, says Michael Rushford of the Sacramento-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjlf.org/about/bioMDR.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Criminal Justice Legal Foundation\u003c/a>, but he thinks women in prison for life are less likely to reoffend if they’re paroled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the chances of success are higher,” he says. “Especially if they’re well supervised. Everybody behaves differently when they’re watched, I’m afraid. These ladies need to be kept an eye on and to be given skills, so they cannot hook up with another gangbanger and go down the bad road again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent graduation at the prison, a visiting room with cinderblock walls is dressed up in purple tablecloths and paper flowers. There is cake, and plenty of cheering and tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Largo, a Kumeyaay tribal member, steps up to a podium to sing a Native American song to her fellow prisoners. Most of them haven’t been outside prison walls for decades. But they’re more hopeful now than ever that they may soon be paroled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you guys can imagine sitting on top of a cliff, and you’re looking around you, you could see the river flowing, the rocks, the mountains, the trees. Just for the few minutes I sing this song, you guys turn into that eagle and you fly.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10383131/new-program-offers-women-lifers-more-hope-of-being-paroled","authors":["254"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_1628","news_311","news_6327","news_3930","news_1471","news_17286","news_17041","news_2833"],"featImg":"news_10383323","label":"news_72"},"news_10347478":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10347478","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10347478","score":null,"sort":[1415323342000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-its-like-to-face-parole-after-32-years-in-prison","title":"The Emotional Interview Before A California Inmate Was Denied Parole","publishDate":1415323342,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California has more than 25,000 men and women serving life sentences with the possibility of parole. Most are there for first- and second-degree murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, their chances of winning parole were slim. But in the last five years things have changed. Record numbers of so-called lifers have been paroled. While past governors overturned up to 95 percent of parole recommendations, Gov. Jerry Brown is allowing 75 percent of them to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Ward, 64, stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death in 1982 and has spent half his life in prison. Earlier this year, he was found suitable for release by the State Parole Board. The governor had until Nov. 5 to reverse Ward's parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 2014, I spoke with Ward about how he felt about the possibility of parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/175719282\" params=\"auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ward's parole was one of the minority of cases to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/245781112/Gov-Jerry-Brown-s-Parole-Reversal-of-James-Ward\" target=\"_blank\">reversed by Brown\u003c/a>. Inmates whose parole is reversed can appeal to the courts, which sometimes allows the parole to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why are more lifers being paroled? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, a 2008 state Supreme Court ruling that said “life with the possibility of parole” must really include that possibility, and the state can no longer deny parole based on the heinous nature of their crimes -- they must also show that inmates are still a risk to public safety if they’re released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, the state is under a federal court order to reduce its inmate population, and lifers actually have very low rates of recidivism. That could be having a subtle impact on the Parole Board’s decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, Brown takes a different approach to criminal justice from his predecessors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has begun pilot programs in three facilities to help lifers prepare for life on the outside. It includes classes on anger management, substance abuse help, job training and help understanding their how crimes affects victims and their families – as well as their own families, who are often torn apart when their loved one goes away to prison.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"James Ward had talked about the possibility of parole after spending half his life behind bars.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1416943479,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":391},"headData":{"title":"The Emotional Interview Before A California Inmate Was Denied Parole | KQED","description":"James Ward had talked about the possibility of parole after spending half his life behind bars.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"The Emotional Interview Before A California Inmate Was Denied Parole","datePublished":"2014-11-07T01:22:22.000Z","dateModified":"2014-11-25T19:24:39.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10347478 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10347478","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/06/what-its-like-to-face-parole-after-32-years-in-prison/","disqusTitle":"The Emotional Interview Before A California Inmate Was Denied Parole","path":"/news/10347478/what-its-like-to-face-parole-after-32-years-in-prison","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California has more than 25,000 men and women serving life sentences with the possibility of parole. Most are there for first- and second-degree murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, their chances of winning parole were slim. But in the last five years things have changed. Record numbers of so-called lifers have been paroled. While past governors overturned up to 95 percent of parole recommendations, Gov. Jerry Brown is allowing 75 percent of them to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Ward, 64, stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death in 1982 and has spent half his life in prison. Earlier this year, he was found suitable for release by the State Parole Board. The governor had until Nov. 5 to reverse Ward's parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 2014, I spoke with Ward about how he felt about the possibility of parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='450'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/175719282&visual=true&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/175719282'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ward's parole was one of the minority of cases to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/245781112/Gov-Jerry-Brown-s-Parole-Reversal-of-James-Ward\" target=\"_blank\">reversed by Brown\u003c/a>. Inmates whose parole is reversed can appeal to the courts, which sometimes allows the parole to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why are more lifers being paroled? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, a 2008 state Supreme Court ruling that said “life with the possibility of parole” must really include that possibility, and the state can no longer deny parole based on the heinous nature of their crimes -- they must also show that inmates are still a risk to public safety if they’re released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, the state is under a federal court order to reduce its inmate population, and lifers actually have very low rates of recidivism. That could be having a subtle impact on the Parole Board’s decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, Brown takes a different approach to criminal justice from his predecessors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has begun pilot programs in three facilities to help lifers prepare for life on the outside. It includes classes on anger management, substance abuse help, job training and help understanding their how crimes affects victims and their families – as well as their own families, who are often torn apart when their loved one goes away to prison.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10347478/what-its-like-to-face-parole-after-32-years-in-prison","authors":["255"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_6327"],"featImg":"news_10347485","label":"news_6944"},"news_144366":{"type":"posts","id":"news_144366","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"144366","score":null,"sort":[1407541863000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"governor-supports-programs-to-help-lifer-inmates-win-parole","title":"New Classes Aim to Help Paroled 'Lifer' Inmates After Release","publishDate":1407541863,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/162338268\" params=\"color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height='20' iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_144411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-144411\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/LiferClass1.jpg\" alt=\"Inmates trained as mentors lead classes as part of the Long-Term Offender Pilot Program at Solano State Prison. (Monica Lam/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmates trained as mentors lead classes as part of the Long-Term Offender Pilot Program at Solano State Prison. (Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A profound change is underway in California's criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmates serving life sentences with the possibility of parole are being released in record numbers. Since 2009, nearly 2,300 lifers have been paroled. That's more than three times the number paroled in the previous 17 years \u003cem>combined\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown's office insists it has nothing to do with the state's prison overcrowding issue. Instead, he says, it's being driven by recent court rulings that make it harder to deny parole if inmates are no longer considered a risk to public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, for the first time, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is offering classes aimed directly at lifers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent weekday morning at Solano State Prison in Vacaville, inmates lined up to receive certificates. They had just completed classes that help them understand how they ended up here. The special guest is not a typical graduation speaker. Instead, they hear from Teresa Courtemanche. Six years ago, her son, Matt, who was on the Fairfield City Council, was shot and killed. He was 22 -- a victim of mistaken identity. She recalls that night when her home phone rang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was my friend Terri and she said, ‘I think Matt got shot,’ ” Courtemanche remembers. “ ’What?' ‘I think he got shot.' I said, 'OK, let me go. Let me call his phone.’ And I kept calling his phone and he didn’t answer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_144420\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 310px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-144420\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/JamesWard.jpg\" alt=\"Inmate James Ward trained to be a drug and alcohol counselor at Solano Prison, as well as a mentor for other inmates. (Monica Lam/KQED)\" width=\"310\" height=\"326\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmate James Ward trained to be a drug and alcohol counselor at Solano Prison, as well as a mentor for other inmates. (Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She goes on to describe through tears how the murder tore through her family -- and still does. The audience, 40 or so lifers, sits quietly, many of them nodding slowly as she speaks. It's one of the ways inmates hear about the impact that crime has on their victims and their families. Afterward, one of the inmates, James Ward, speaks passionately about the unfairness of violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I hear us complaining about how unfair we are treated -- you want to see how unfairness is?” Ward says, pounding the podium for emphasis. “Look at \u003cem>her \u003c/em>experience. When we talk about, 'Oh, the police didn't let me out on the yard or came to search my house.' How messed up that is. That is not unfair!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ward has spent half his life in prison after stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death over 30 years ago. After being turned down for parole five times, he was finally found suitable earlier this year. Standing in a prison courtyard, Ward says unless that his parole is reversed by the governor, he'll leave Solano Prison Nov. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have mixed feelings about it, actually,” he confides. “There’s the elation of being found suitable but then the sobering realization of what this has cost -- in my girlfriend’s life and her relatives' lives and my family’s lives. So, the impact is widespread, so I can’t be too celebratory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple years ago, Ward was trained to be a drug and alcohol counselor at Solano, as well as a mentor for other inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Doing this work is part of that making amends in a kind of indirect way to my victims,” Ward says. “But there’s more that I think I could do out of the confines of this limiting environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Programs like these are part of a different approach that Gov. Brown has brought to criminal justice. For the first time in decades, inmate rehabilitation is a funding priority. The inmates learn things like anger management, what leads to criminal thinking, the impact crime has on victims and how to reconcile with their own family members if they're released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodger Meier, deputy director for rehabilitation with CDCR, says the goal is “to try to make sure that they are suitable for parole, that they don’t impact public safety, and they can successfully go out into society and lead a productive life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_144418\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 407px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-144418\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/LiferClass2.jpg\" alt=\"Inmates at Solano State Prison participate in classes as part of the Long-Term Offender Pilot Program. (Monica Lam/KQED)\" width=\"407\" height=\"252\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmates at Solano State Prison participate in classes as part of the Long-Term Offender Pilot Program. (Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly half of Solano's 3,300 inmates are lifers, and many will eventually be paroled. And the hope is that programs like these will help them make better decisions than they did before they were sent here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cynthia Florez-DeLyon, with the CDCR’s Office of Victim Services, says crime victims and their families also benefit when inmates express genuine remorse at parole hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about responsibility and accountability,” says Florez-DeLyon. “And in order for them to internalize and make changes in their lives, they need to understand the impact that they’ve caused as a result of committing a very serious crime that bought them to prison, as well as the impact it had to themselves, to the community and to their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I point out that not all crime victims want to see these inmates released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They may be forgiving, they may be very angry and they want to hold onto that anger and that's OK,” she says. “It's a personal experience that we cannot dictate for victims.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talking with these lifers can scramble your stereotypes -- the images you have of a brutal murderer. Like Jose Hernandez. Twenty-one years ago, he went to his ex-girlfriend's home south of San Francisco and strangled her to death with a television cable. He then wrote a suicide note to make it look like she killed herself. He was convicted of second-degree murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like the biggest desire to undo the past,” he says. “And that powerlessness to undo the past just motivates me to change now. Change today because I know if I change today, I’m going to change the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today Hernandez leads classes at Solano, helping fellow inmates understand their drug and alcohol addictions. He is thoughtful, articulate and seems genuinely, deeply sorry for what he did -- with insight into why he turned so brutally violent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me it was when I was abandoned by my mom about 5 years old and left in the hands of an abuser,” Hernandez says. “I was hurt, I felt worthless and rejected. But that’s where the cycle started.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the Parole Board found Hernandez suitable for release. But Brown reversed it, one of 100 parole recommendations he blocked in 2013, saying he worried Hernandez was still a risk to public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Stanford University study found that less than 1 percent of paroled lifers commit another serious felony. Still, some critics wonder whether all these programs inside prison just teach lifers what to do and say in order to win their release. One crime victim who feels they're essentially being coached on what to tell the parole board is Brigit Fitting Nevin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1990, when she was 12, her father, Timothy Fitting, was killed by an employee who struck him in the head with a wrench two dozen times. His murderer has been in prison for 24 years. She says the thought of her father's killer getting out frightens her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_144426\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 364px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-144426\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/RecoveryClass.jpg\" alt=\"Former lifer David Hillary (2nd from left) assists a class for recovering addicts at Options Recovery Services in Berkeley. (Monica Lam/KQED)\" width=\"364\" height=\"209\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former lifer David Hillary (2nd from left) assists a class for recovering addicts at Options Recovery Services in Berkeley. (Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There was always this comfort that I had,” Nevin says, fighting back tears. “You know as a child, knowing that even this bad thing occurred, that this person was in jail and that you know I was protected from that and others were protected from that. With them suggesting that he is suitable for parole, that’s been taken away from me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June her father's killer was found suitable for parole. Nevin will urge the governor to block it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Hillary appreciates \u003cem>his\u003c/em> freedom every day. After serving 18 years in prison for second-degree murder, Hillary was released two years ago. Today he counsels other former lifers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most that I could ask for is just have some compassion because I don't necessarily believe I have the \u003cem>right \u003c/em>to a second chance” Hillary says. “If you see my actions are indicative of a different person, have some compassion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> \u003c/em>With some 26,000 lifers still in prison, the state plans to expand its programs behind bars to help more of them become eligible for parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/author/mlam\" target=\"_blank\">Monica Lam\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Programs being offered now reflect different approach by Gov. Brown to criminal justice.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1444865635,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1508},"headData":{"title":"New Classes Aim to Help Paroled 'Lifer' Inmates After Release | KQED","description":"Programs being offered now reflect different approach by Gov. 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(Monica Lam/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmates trained as mentors lead classes as part of the Long-Term Offender Pilot Program at Solano State Prison. (Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A profound change is underway in California's criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmates serving life sentences with the possibility of parole are being released in record numbers. Since 2009, nearly 2,300 lifers have been paroled. That's more than three times the number paroled in the previous 17 years \u003cem>combined\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown's office insists it has nothing to do with the state's prison overcrowding issue. Instead, he says, it's being driven by recent court rulings that make it harder to deny parole if inmates are no longer considered a risk to public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, for the first time, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is offering classes aimed directly at lifers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent weekday morning at Solano State Prison in Vacaville, inmates lined up to receive certificates. They had just completed classes that help them understand how they ended up here. The special guest is not a typical graduation speaker. Instead, they hear from Teresa Courtemanche. Six years ago, her son, Matt, who was on the Fairfield City Council, was shot and killed. He was 22 -- a victim of mistaken identity. She recalls that night when her home phone rang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was my friend Terri and she said, ‘I think Matt got shot,’ ” Courtemanche remembers. “ ’What?' ‘I think he got shot.' I said, 'OK, let me go. Let me call his phone.’ And I kept calling his phone and he didn’t answer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_144420\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 310px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-144420\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/JamesWard.jpg\" alt=\"Inmate James Ward trained to be a drug and alcohol counselor at Solano Prison, as well as a mentor for other inmates. (Monica Lam/KQED)\" width=\"310\" height=\"326\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmate James Ward trained to be a drug and alcohol counselor at Solano Prison, as well as a mentor for other inmates. (Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She goes on to describe through tears how the murder tore through her family -- and still does. The audience, 40 or so lifers, sits quietly, many of them nodding slowly as she speaks. It's one of the ways inmates hear about the impact that crime has on their victims and their families. Afterward, one of the inmates, James Ward, speaks passionately about the unfairness of violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I hear us complaining about how unfair we are treated -- you want to see how unfairness is?” Ward says, pounding the podium for emphasis. “Look at \u003cem>her \u003c/em>experience. When we talk about, 'Oh, the police didn't let me out on the yard or came to search my house.' How messed up that is. That is not unfair!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ward has spent half his life in prison after stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death over 30 years ago. After being turned down for parole five times, he was finally found suitable earlier this year. Standing in a prison courtyard, Ward says unless that his parole is reversed by the governor, he'll leave Solano Prison Nov. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have mixed feelings about it, actually,” he confides. “There’s the elation of being found suitable but then the sobering realization of what this has cost -- in my girlfriend’s life and her relatives' lives and my family’s lives. So, the impact is widespread, so I can’t be too celebratory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple years ago, Ward was trained to be a drug and alcohol counselor at Solano, as well as a mentor for other inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Doing this work is part of that making amends in a kind of indirect way to my victims,” Ward says. “But there’s more that I think I could do out of the confines of this limiting environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Programs like these are part of a different approach that Gov. Brown has brought to criminal justice. For the first time in decades, inmate rehabilitation is a funding priority. The inmates learn things like anger management, what leads to criminal thinking, the impact crime has on victims and how to reconcile with their own family members if they're released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodger Meier, deputy director for rehabilitation with CDCR, says the goal is “to try to make sure that they are suitable for parole, that they don’t impact public safety, and they can successfully go out into society and lead a productive life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_144418\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 407px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-144418\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/LiferClass2.jpg\" alt=\"Inmates at Solano State Prison participate in classes as part of the Long-Term Offender Pilot Program. (Monica Lam/KQED)\" width=\"407\" height=\"252\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmates at Solano State Prison participate in classes as part of the Long-Term Offender Pilot Program. (Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly half of Solano's 3,300 inmates are lifers, and many will eventually be paroled. And the hope is that programs like these will help them make better decisions than they did before they were sent here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cynthia Florez-DeLyon, with the CDCR’s Office of Victim Services, says crime victims and their families also benefit when inmates express genuine remorse at parole hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about responsibility and accountability,” says Florez-DeLyon. “And in order for them to internalize and make changes in their lives, they need to understand the impact that they’ve caused as a result of committing a very serious crime that bought them to prison, as well as the impact it had to themselves, to the community and to their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I point out that not all crime victims want to see these inmates released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They may be forgiving, they may be very angry and they want to hold onto that anger and that's OK,” she says. “It's a personal experience that we cannot dictate for victims.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talking with these lifers can scramble your stereotypes -- the images you have of a brutal murderer. Like Jose Hernandez. Twenty-one years ago, he went to his ex-girlfriend's home south of San Francisco and strangled her to death with a television cable. He then wrote a suicide note to make it look like she killed herself. He was convicted of second-degree murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like the biggest desire to undo the past,” he says. “And that powerlessness to undo the past just motivates me to change now. Change today because I know if I change today, I’m going to change the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today Hernandez leads classes at Solano, helping fellow inmates understand their drug and alcohol addictions. He is thoughtful, articulate and seems genuinely, deeply sorry for what he did -- with insight into why he turned so brutally violent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me it was when I was abandoned by my mom about 5 years old and left in the hands of an abuser,” Hernandez says. “I was hurt, I felt worthless and rejected. But that’s where the cycle started.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the Parole Board found Hernandez suitable for release. But Brown reversed it, one of 100 parole recommendations he blocked in 2013, saying he worried Hernandez was still a risk to public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Stanford University study found that less than 1 percent of paroled lifers commit another serious felony. Still, some critics wonder whether all these programs inside prison just teach lifers what to do and say in order to win their release. One crime victim who feels they're essentially being coached on what to tell the parole board is Brigit Fitting Nevin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1990, when she was 12, her father, Timothy Fitting, was killed by an employee who struck him in the head with a wrench two dozen times. His murderer has been in prison for 24 years. She says the thought of her father's killer getting out frightens her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_144426\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 364px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-144426\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/RecoveryClass.jpg\" alt=\"Former lifer David Hillary (2nd from left) assists a class for recovering addicts at Options Recovery Services in Berkeley. (Monica Lam/KQED)\" width=\"364\" height=\"209\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former lifer David Hillary (2nd from left) assists a class for recovering addicts at Options Recovery Services in Berkeley. (Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There was always this comfort that I had,” Nevin says, fighting back tears. “You know as a child, knowing that even this bad thing occurred, that this person was in jail and that you know I was protected from that and others were protected from that. With them suggesting that he is suitable for parole, that’s been taken away from me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June her father's killer was found suitable for parole. Nevin will urge the governor to block it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Hillary appreciates \u003cem>his\u003c/em> freedom every day. After serving 18 years in prison for second-degree murder, Hillary was released two years ago. Today he counsels other former lifers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most that I could ask for is just have some compassion because I don't necessarily believe I have the \u003cem>right \u003c/em>to a second chance” Hillary says. “If you see my actions are indicative of a different person, have some compassion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> \u003c/em>With some 26,000 lifers still in prison, the state plans to expand its programs behind bars to help more of them become eligible for parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/author/mlam\" target=\"_blank\">Monica Lam\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/144366/governor-supports-programs-to-help-lifer-inmates-win-parole","authors":["255"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_616","news_6327"],"featImg":"news_144411","label":"news_6944"},"news_136306":{"type":"posts","id":"news_136306","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"136306","score":null,"sort":[1400271284000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"video-freed-after-years-in-san-quentin-richmond-man-siezes-his-second-chance","title":"Video: Freed After Years in San Quentin, Richmond Man Seizes His Second Chance","publishDate":1400271284,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LiBf4jQ814?rel=0&w=640&h=360]\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Talking to James Houston today, it's difficult to imagine the troubled young man he was back in 1996, when he shot and killed a neighbor during an argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He spent 17 years behind bars at San Quentin State Prison, where he earned a college degree, became an addiction counselor and even pitched a tech startup to some Silicon Valley venture capitalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before 2009, even a model inmate like Houston had little chance of ever leaving prison. The parole board was reluctant to let \"lifers\" out, and when it did, the governor would often overturn its decision. In 2000, for example, 13 lifers were released as Gov. Pete Wilson reversed 92 percent of the parole board’s findings that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"c49e9bf6daa345011a9fa090f12f204b\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that began to change when a key California Supreme Court ruling limited the reasons that lifers may be denied parole. The board and the governor can no longer consider the severity of the crime alone, and they now have to ask how dangerous the person is today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, 443 lifers got out as Gov. Jerry Brown let 81 percent of the parole board’s decisions stand. At a recent rally for victims' rights, Brown said, “I’m worried about a number of things, but after we catalog our worries, we have to do what our job is, and I try to do that with common sense and a certain degree of compassion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recidivism rate for lifers is less than 1 percent, according to the Stanford Criminal Justice Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Houston has two jobs. By day, he drives Richmond's roughest blocks looking for the young men most likely to shoot someone or be shot. He's an outreach worker at the Richmond Office of Neighborhood Safety, which many credit as an important reason violent crime is reducing in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of these kids have never had a man take an interest in them without eventually asking for something in return,\" said Houston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At night he's an addiction counselor at Options Recovery Services in downtown Berkeley. Just-released lifers go there to get help finding housing, employment and things like a ride to Target to buy a toothbrush and soap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year after his release, Houston has moved from transitional housing to a tidy house in Richmond, where he checks his 6-year-old stepson's homework while his wife makes lasagna. The couple knew each other as teenagers, and reconnected decades later when she sent him a letter at San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His older son, James Jr., was 10 months old when he went to prison. Now 18, James Jr. keeps a large stack of letters Houston wrote him from prison. \"I wanted to be like 'Leave It to Beaver'-- to be able to kiss my son on the cheek, show him a different type of man,\" said Houston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He now has a second chance.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Meet James Houston, one of more than 1,700 \"lifers\" who have been paroled in California since 2009.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1419883301,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":509},"headData":{"title":"Video: Freed After Years in San Quentin, Richmond Man Seizes His Second Chance | KQED","description":"Meet James Houston, one of more than 1,700 "lifers" who have been paroled in California since 2009.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Video: Freed After Years in San Quentin, Richmond Man Seizes His Second Chance","datePublished":"2014-05-16T20:14:44.000Z","dateModified":"2014-12-29T20:01:41.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"136306 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=136306","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/05/16/video-freed-after-years-in-san-quentin-richmond-man-siezes-his-second-chance/","disqusTitle":"Video: Freed After Years in San Quentin, Richmond Man Seizes His Second Chance","customPermalink":"video-lifer-free-richmond/","path":"/news/136306/video-freed-after-years-in-san-quentin-richmond-man-siezes-his-second-chance","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/-LiBf4jQ814?rel=0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/-LiBf4jQ814?rel=0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Talking to James Houston today, it's difficult to imagine the troubled young man he was back in 1996, when he shot and killed a neighbor during an argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He spent 17 years behind bars at San Quentin State Prison, where he earned a college degree, became an addiction counselor and even pitched a tech startup to some Silicon Valley venture capitalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before 2009, even a model inmate like Houston had little chance of ever leaving prison. The parole board was reluctant to let \"lifers\" out, and when it did, the governor would often overturn its decision. In 2000, for example, 13 lifers were released as Gov. Pete Wilson reversed 92 percent of the parole board’s findings that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that began to change when a key California Supreme Court ruling limited the reasons that lifers may be denied parole. The board and the governor can no longer consider the severity of the crime alone, and they now have to ask how dangerous the person is today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, 443 lifers got out as Gov. Jerry Brown let 81 percent of the parole board’s decisions stand. At a recent rally for victims' rights, Brown said, “I’m worried about a number of things, but after we catalog our worries, we have to do what our job is, and I try to do that with common sense and a certain degree of compassion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recidivism rate for lifers is less than 1 percent, according to the Stanford Criminal Justice Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Houston has two jobs. By day, he drives Richmond's roughest blocks looking for the young men most likely to shoot someone or be shot. He's an outreach worker at the Richmond Office of Neighborhood Safety, which many credit as an important reason violent crime is reducing in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of these kids have never had a man take an interest in them without eventually asking for something in return,\" said Houston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At night he's an addiction counselor at Options Recovery Services in downtown Berkeley. Just-released lifers go there to get help finding housing, employment and things like a ride to Target to buy a toothbrush and soap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year after his release, Houston has moved from transitional housing to a tidy house in Richmond, where he checks his 6-year-old stepson's homework while his wife makes lasagna. The couple knew each other as teenagers, and reconnected decades later when she sent him a letter at San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His older son, James Jr., was 10 months old when he went to prison. Now 18, James Jr. keeps a large stack of letters Houston wrote him from prison. \"I wanted to be like 'Leave It to Beaver'-- to be able to kiss my son on the cheek, show him a different type of man,\" said Houston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He now has a second chance.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/136306/video-freed-after-years-in-san-quentin-richmond-man-siezes-his-second-chance","authors":["230"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_6327","news_150"],"featImg":"news_136320","label":"news_6944"},"news_10341810":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10341810","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10341810","score":null,"sort":[1400252445000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"former-lifers-discuss-hopes-fears-after-winning-parole","title":"Former Lifers Discuss Hopes, Fears After Winning Parole","publishDate":1400252445,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/05/2014-05-16b-tcrmag.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, California inmates serving sentences like 25-years-to-life had very little chance of being released. Parole was routinely denied by the Board of Parole Hearings, or blocked by the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the past few years, there's been a dramatic change. Since a key Supreme Court ruling in 2008, the number of so-called \"lifers\" winning parole has steadily climbed. Since then, more than 1,700 lifers have been released\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change is being felt on both sides of the prison walls. At a recent graduation day at San Quentin State Prison, about 50 inmates — most of them lifers — collected their diplomas from a course in leadership. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the ceremony, Associate Warden Jeff Lawson said that as more and more lifers are granted parole and leave prison, the inmates are taking notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of these guys understand there is light at the end of the tunnel now,” Lawson says. “So it just helps improve the overall environment for them. And it gets the ones who were maybe straddling the fence to get off the fence and get on the right side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/-LiBf4jQ814\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmate Duane Reynolds just completed the leadership course. On the way back to his cellblock, he describes the crime that sent him away more than 25 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a matter of fact, what I did was, I murdered my uh, my supervisor,” Reynolds says. “High on drugs. So my life was out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynolds was 30 at the time. His sentence: 26 years to life. He's now 54. Despite being denied parole three times, Reynolds is hopeful. Next month, he says, the parole board will decide — once again — if he's suitable for parole and no longer a risk to society. I ask him if he thinks he's suitable?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That's a very difficult question for me,” he answers. “I will say this: I'm a changed individual. But the fact that I took another human being's life, that's a hard question for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynolds says he and his fellow San Quentin inmates are very aware that after years of routine denials of parole, word is out: If you do the work, complete the programs and stay in line, release is a very real possibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that people are going home is really encouraging to a lot of individuals,” he notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2009, more than twice as many lifers have been paroled than in the previous two decades combined. There are several reasons for that. State Supreme Court rulings that made it tougher to deny parole to inmates who are no longer a threat to public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also Gov. Jerry Brown's 12 appointees on the parole board are granting parole at a much higher rate than previous commissioners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And unlike his predecessors, who usually blocked parole for murderers, Brown is allowing 80 percent of the parole recommendations to go forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While you might think that freedom after decades in prison is all upside, the reality is more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gregory Rivers was just released from Solano State Prison after serving more than three decades for a murder. The former gang member was 17 at the time. Now 55, he recalls that first full day on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That morning when I woke up, got dressed — it's about 6 in the morning — I was scared to open the door,” Rivers remembers. “Because while I’m free physically, mentally I still have some work to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10341813\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/TCRLifersDudes.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/TCRLifersDudes-400x338.jpg\" alt=\"Just-released lifers can find housing, counseling, and help getting a driver's license at Options Recovery in Berkeley. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"338\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10341813\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/TCRLifersDudes-400x338.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/TCRLifersDudes.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just-released lifers can find housing, counseling, and help getting a driver's license at Options Recovery in Berkeley. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He worries that somehow his newfound freedom will lead to trouble — and back to prison. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do plan to walk a straight and narrow path and give back to society,” he says, adding, “You know, it's remarkable that I was given a second chance when I didn't give my victims a second chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivers is standing inside a Chinese restaurant in Berkeley. He is, in a sense, the guest of honor, joining a dozen other former lifers recently released from prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gathering is part celebration, part reunion. All the men were trained to be drug and alcohol counselors while they were still in prison. Some will continue that work now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting around a larger corner table in the restaurant, the men share their feelings — and their fears. One of them, Vandrick Towns, remembers entering prison at the age of 17, thinking, he says, he was \"the biggest, baddest person alive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the others reach for more food and clean their plates, Towns says he's learned to be vulnerable — how to cry and how to give his pain a voice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something I never did during my childhood,” Towns says. “Never talked about things, whether they was good or bad. I never talked. I stayed isolated. Today I’m comfortable with talking because I’m comfortable in my own skin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of prison less than a year now, Towns works at Options Recovery Services in Berkeley, a nonprofit group that works with inmates and parolees. But, he remembers, finding that first job wasn't easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For my first six months nobody wanted to touch me,” he recalls. “When it got to the job interview — ‘Oh, you’re very articulate, you’re very educated. Oh, you’re a parolee? Sorry. Next.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another former lifer, Greg Jones, was also released from the Solano prison just over a week ago. On this day, he's celebrating something most of us take for granted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got my ID today and I was elated,” Jones says to bellows of laughter. “That was a big deal. And I got my driver’s license today, also.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men laugh and warn him not to text and drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are plenty of serious moments. They talk about getting reacquainted with their children — and grandchildren. One of them, David Hillary, stresses the importance of keeping a positive attitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day I have to go to bed, and knowing this is an opportunity I was given ... I will never squander it like I did before in the past,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The philosopher in the group seems to be James Thomas. Crisply dressed in blue jeans and a white, button-down shirt, Thomas talks about humility and resisting disappointment when he's turned down for jobs. The key, he says, is patience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And everything good will come to you if you just wait for it,” Thomas says to a hushed room. “I’ve tried to chase it and I guarantee you it’s an uphill battle trying to catch it. Because no matter how close you get, it’s always gonna be one step ahead of you. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are more than 26,000 California inmates serving life sentences with the possibility of parole. Many will never get out. Those who do will need the kind of support these men have found to make the most of their second chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of our series, \"Second Chance: Lifers and Parole in California.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/behind-californias-dramatic-increase-in-lifers-freed-from-prison/\" target=\"_blank\">Behind California's Dramatic Increase in Lifers Freed from Prisons\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/timeline-a-history-of-the-california-lifers-up-for-parole/\" target=\"_blank\">Timeline: History of California Lifers Up for Parole\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/video-lifer-free-richmond\" target=\"_blank\">Video: Freed After Years in San Quentin, Richmond Man Seizes His Second Chance\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Since a key Supreme Court ruling in 2008, the number of \"lifers\" winning parole has steadily climbed.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1412134424,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":40,"wordCount":1296},"headData":{"title":"Former Lifers Discuss Hopes, Fears After Winning Parole | KQED","description":"Since a key Supreme Court ruling in 2008, the number of "lifers" winning parole has steadily climbed.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Former Lifers Discuss Hopes, Fears After Winning Parole","datePublished":"2014-05-16T15:00:45.000Z","dateModified":"2014-10-01T03:33:44.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10341810 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10341810","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/05/16/former-lifers-discuss-hopes-fears-after-winning-parole/","disqusTitle":"Former Lifers Discuss Hopes, Fears After Winning Parole","path":"/news/10341810/former-lifers-discuss-hopes-fears-after-winning-parole","audioUrl":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/05/2014-05-16b-tcrmag.mp3","audioDuration":null,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/05/2014-05-16b-tcrmag.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, California inmates serving sentences like 25-years-to-life had very little chance of being released. Parole was routinely denied by the Board of Parole Hearings, or blocked by the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the past few years, there's been a dramatic change. Since a key Supreme Court ruling in 2008, the number of so-called \"lifers\" winning parole has steadily climbed. Since then, more than 1,700 lifers have been released\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change is being felt on both sides of the prison walls. At a recent graduation day at San Quentin State Prison, about 50 inmates — most of them lifers — collected their diplomas from a course in leadership. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the ceremony, Associate Warden Jeff Lawson said that as more and more lifers are granted parole and leave prison, the inmates are taking notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of these guys understand there is light at the end of the tunnel now,” Lawson says. “So it just helps improve the overall environment for them. And it gets the ones who were maybe straddling the fence to get off the fence and get on the right side.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/-LiBf4jQ814'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/-LiBf4jQ814'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Inmate Duane Reynolds just completed the leadership course. On the way back to his cellblock, he describes the crime that sent him away more than 25 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a matter of fact, what I did was, I murdered my uh, my supervisor,” Reynolds says. “High on drugs. So my life was out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynolds was 30 at the time. His sentence: 26 years to life. He's now 54. Despite being denied parole three times, Reynolds is hopeful. Next month, he says, the parole board will decide — once again — if he's suitable for parole and no longer a risk to society. I ask him if he thinks he's suitable?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That's a very difficult question for me,” he answers. “I will say this: I'm a changed individual. But the fact that I took another human being's life, that's a hard question for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynolds says he and his fellow San Quentin inmates are very aware that after years of routine denials of parole, word is out: If you do the work, complete the programs and stay in line, release is a very real possibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that people are going home is really encouraging to a lot of individuals,” he notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2009, more than twice as many lifers have been paroled than in the previous two decades combined. There are several reasons for that. State Supreme Court rulings that made it tougher to deny parole to inmates who are no longer a threat to public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also Gov. Jerry Brown's 12 appointees on the parole board are granting parole at a much higher rate than previous commissioners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And unlike his predecessors, who usually blocked parole for murderers, Brown is allowing 80 percent of the parole recommendations to go forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While you might think that freedom after decades in prison is all upside, the reality is more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gregory Rivers was just released from Solano State Prison after serving more than three decades for a murder. The former gang member was 17 at the time. Now 55, he recalls that first full day on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That morning when I woke up, got dressed — it's about 6 in the morning — I was scared to open the door,” Rivers remembers. “Because while I’m free physically, mentally I still have some work to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10341813\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/TCRLifersDudes.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/TCRLifersDudes-400x338.jpg\" alt=\"Just-released lifers can find housing, counseling, and help getting a driver's license at Options Recovery in Berkeley. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"338\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10341813\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/TCRLifersDudes-400x338.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/TCRLifersDudes.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just-released lifers can find housing, counseling, and help getting a driver's license at Options Recovery in Berkeley. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He worries that somehow his newfound freedom will lead to trouble — and back to prison. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do plan to walk a straight and narrow path and give back to society,” he says, adding, “You know, it's remarkable that I was given a second chance when I didn't give my victims a second chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivers is standing inside a Chinese restaurant in Berkeley. He is, in a sense, the guest of honor, joining a dozen other former lifers recently released from prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gathering is part celebration, part reunion. All the men were trained to be drug and alcohol counselors while they were still in prison. Some will continue that work now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting around a larger corner table in the restaurant, the men share their feelings — and their fears. One of them, Vandrick Towns, remembers entering prison at the age of 17, thinking, he says, he was \"the biggest, baddest person alive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the others reach for more food and clean their plates, Towns says he's learned to be vulnerable — how to cry and how to give his pain a voice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something I never did during my childhood,” Towns says. “Never talked about things, whether they was good or bad. I never talked. I stayed isolated. Today I’m comfortable with talking because I’m comfortable in my own skin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of prison less than a year now, Towns works at Options Recovery Services in Berkeley, a nonprofit group that works with inmates and parolees. But, he remembers, finding that first job wasn't easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For my first six months nobody wanted to touch me,” he recalls. “When it got to the job interview — ‘Oh, you’re very articulate, you’re very educated. Oh, you’re a parolee? Sorry. Next.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another former lifer, Greg Jones, was also released from the Solano prison just over a week ago. On this day, he's celebrating something most of us take for granted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got my ID today and I was elated,” Jones says to bellows of laughter. “That was a big deal. And I got my driver’s license today, also.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men laugh and warn him not to text and drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are plenty of serious moments. They talk about getting reacquainted with their children — and grandchildren. One of them, David Hillary, stresses the importance of keeping a positive attitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day I have to go to bed, and knowing this is an opportunity I was given ... I will never squander it like I did before in the past,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The philosopher in the group seems to be James Thomas. Crisply dressed in blue jeans and a white, button-down shirt, Thomas talks about humility and resisting disappointment when he's turned down for jobs. The key, he says, is patience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And everything good will come to you if you just wait for it,” Thomas says to a hushed room. “I’ve tried to chase it and I guarantee you it’s an uphill battle trying to catch it. Because no matter how close you get, it’s always gonna be one step ahead of you. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are more than 26,000 California inmates serving life sentences with the possibility of parole. Many will never get out. Those who do will need the kind of support these men have found to make the most of their second chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of our series, \"Second Chance: Lifers and Parole in California.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/behind-californias-dramatic-increase-in-lifers-freed-from-prison/\" target=\"_blank\">Behind California's Dramatic Increase in Lifers Freed from Prisons\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/timeline-a-history-of-the-california-lifers-up-for-parole/\" target=\"_blank\">Timeline: History of California Lifers Up for Parole\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/video-lifer-free-richmond\" target=\"_blank\">Video: Freed After Years in San Quentin, Richmond Man Seizes His Second Chance\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10341810/former-lifers-discuss-hopes-fears-after-winning-parole","authors":["255"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188"],"tags":["news_616","news_6327"],"featImg":"news_10341811","label":"news_72"},"news_10341817":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10341817","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10341817","score":null,"sort":[1400252402000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"record-numbers-of-states-lifer-inmates-granted-parole","title":"Record Numbers of State's Lifer Inmates Granted Parole","publishDate":1400252402,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2014/05/2014-05-16a-tcr.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, California inmates serving life sentences with the possibility of parole rarely got out of prison. Most of these so-called lifers committed murder, and most were routinely denied parole by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's changing. The past few years have seen record numbers of lifers getting out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a spare room just outside the main walls of San Quentin Prison, Kent Wimberly makes his case for parole in mid-March. In 1979, he stabbed and killed two people in San Diego. He was 17 at the time. Today, he's 51.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today I've moved so far from that person that I was,” Wimberly says in a voice with little emotion. “I've developed so many tools and so much understanding and maturity, and so much more compassion for others.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the 12th time Wimberly has appeared before the parole board. But it's his first hearing under a new state law (SB260) requiring the parole board to weigh the age of inmates who committed their crimes as juveniles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After nearly three hours of questions and testimony, the parole board deliberates for less than 30 minutes. They reconvene, and Parole Commissioner Marisela Montes announces the board's decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We find that Mr. Wimberly does not pose an unreasonable risk of danger to society or threat to public safety and is therefore now eligible for parole,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's not the final word. California is one of just three states where governors can block parole decisions. And while previous California governors routinely vetoed parole for lifers, Jerry Brown is taking a very different approach — allowing 80 percent of parole recommendations to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford law Professor Robert Weisberg says the change is striking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean statistically it's a very dramatic change from the Schwarzenegger administration and an unbelievable change from the Gray Davis administration,” Weisberg says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/-LiBf4jQ814\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Report's analysis of state parole data finds that since 2009, more than 1,700 lifers have been released in California — that's more than twice the number paroled in the previous two decades combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And not everyone is happy about the trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a rally for crime victims' families in Sacramento recently, Susan Hamlin describes the upset caused by having to attend a parole hearing for someone who victimized her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the dread of this hearing, and fear of his possible release, set in a full year prior to the hearing,” Hamlin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Capitol sidewalk is lined with posters showing photos of relatives who were murdered. Gov. Brown tells the crowd they aren't forgotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you come here and show us the pictures of real human beings who are your loved ones who were murdered, then it isn't abstract,” the governor says. “It's very real. It's very individual. It's a person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, I ask the governor if he ever worries about a paroled lifer committing another violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm worried about a number of things,” he says, rattling off concerns like climate change and childhood hunger. “But after we catalog our worries, we have to do what our job is. And I try to do that with common sense and a certain degree of compassion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked to describe his approach toward lifer parole, Brown says simply “to follow the law and evaluate very carefully each case, which I do every week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When told that his record is very different from past governors, he said, \"Well, I don't know what they did and whether they read the record or whether they looked at the law. The law has changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown is referring to a 2008 decision by the California Supreme Court. It stopped blanket denials of parole based on the viciousness of a crime alone. The justices ruled that there must also be evidence that an inmate is still a threat to public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Shaffer, executive director of the state Board of Parole Hearings, says that decision changed everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you can imagine, if their crime alone could keep them from being paroled forever, then that was really not life with the possibility of parole,” Shaffer notes. “So there had to be something else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By following the new legal guidelines Shaffer says, Brown is saving the time and taxpayer expense of inmate appeals that result in lifers being paroled anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California Report analysis also finds that under Brown, the parole board is granting parole at a rate that's more than triple what it was five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Charles Carbone represents hundreds of lifers. He says Brown's appointees are taking a different approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They're more sensitive and understanding of the rights of life inmates to receive parole,” Carbone says. “There were parole commissioners in the past who just had a philosophy, if you want to call it, where they issued blanket denials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some critics, like Christine Ward with the Crime Victims Action Alliance, believe the current parole board is simply too lenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really is like playing Russian roulette,” she says. “We just hope that that one time bomb doesn't go off and create that really serious, heinous crime that will leave, not only that family devastated, but the entire state devastated. We've seen it before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what kind of risk do paroled lifers present? The Stanford Criminal Justice Center examined 860 murderers paroled in California over 15 years and found that only five were returned to prison for new felonies. That works out to less than 1 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main reason, says Weisberg, is that paroled lifers are typically older. Young people, he says, are far more likely to commit violent crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Thomas can attest to that. He went to prison at the age of 17 after killing someone during a robbery in Los Angeles. He's now 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being denied parole 14 times, Thomas was finally released last year — after 30 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody makes mistakes,” Thomas says. “Some are just more costly than others. I think once a person makes that transition from one lifestyle to another, he should be or she should be able to live their life in peace and be respected for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Given the rising number of lifers winning parole, the State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has begun new programs to help inmates prepare for life on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of our series, \"Second Chance: Lifers and Parole in California.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/behind-californias-dramatic-increase-in-lifers-freed-from-prison/\" target=\"_blank\">Behind California?s Dramatic Increase in Lifers Freed from Prisons\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More: \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201405161630/b\" target=\"_blank\">Former Lifers Discuss Hopes, Fears After Winning Parole\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/timeline-a-history-of-the-california-lifers-up-for-parole/?__utma=34673459.643003035.1412104317.1412121311.1412130030.7&__utmb=34673459.55.10.1412130032&__utmc=34673459&__utmx=-&__utmz=34673459.1412116048.4.2.utmcsr=google%7Cutmccn=%28organic%29%7Cutmcmd=organic%7Cutmctr=%28not%20provided%29&__utmv=-&__utmk=152166971\" target=\"_blank\">Timeline: History of California Lifers Up for Parole\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Most of these so-called lifers committed murder, and most were routinely denied parole by the state.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1412195540,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":41,"wordCount":1166},"headData":{"title":"Record Numbers of State's Lifer Inmates Granted Parole | KQED","description":"Most of these so-called lifers committed murder, and most were routinely denied parole by the state.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Record Numbers of State's Lifer Inmates Granted Parole","datePublished":"2014-05-16T15:00:02.000Z","dateModified":"2014-10-01T20:32:20.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10341817 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10341817","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/05/16/record-numbers-of-states-lifer-inmates-granted-parole/","disqusTitle":"Record Numbers of State's Lifer Inmates Granted Parole","path":"/news/10341817/record-numbers-of-states-lifer-inmates-granted-parole","audioUrl":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2014/05/2014-05-16a-tcr.mp3","audioDuration":null,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2014/05/2014-05-16a-tcr.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, California inmates serving life sentences with the possibility of parole rarely got out of prison. Most of these so-called lifers committed murder, and most were routinely denied parole by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's changing. The past few years have seen record numbers of lifers getting out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a spare room just outside the main walls of San Quentin Prison, Kent Wimberly makes his case for parole in mid-March. In 1979, he stabbed and killed two people in San Diego. He was 17 at the time. Today, he's 51.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today I've moved so far from that person that I was,” Wimberly says in a voice with little emotion. “I've developed so many tools and so much understanding and maturity, and so much more compassion for others.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the 12th time Wimberly has appeared before the parole board. But it's his first hearing under a new state law (SB260) requiring the parole board to weigh the age of inmates who committed their crimes as juveniles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After nearly three hours of questions and testimony, the parole board deliberates for less than 30 minutes. They reconvene, and Parole Commissioner Marisela Montes announces the board's decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We find that Mr. Wimberly does not pose an unreasonable risk of danger to society or threat to public safety and is therefore now eligible for parole,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's not the final word. California is one of just three states where governors can block parole decisions. And while previous California governors routinely vetoed parole for lifers, Jerry Brown is taking a very different approach — allowing 80 percent of parole recommendations to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford law Professor Robert Weisberg says the change is striking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean statistically it's a very dramatic change from the Schwarzenegger administration and an unbelievable change from the Gray Davis administration,” Weisberg says.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/-LiBf4jQ814'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/-LiBf4jQ814'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The California Report's analysis of state parole data finds that since 2009, more than 1,700 lifers have been released in California — that's more than twice the number paroled in the previous two decades combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And not everyone is happy about the trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a rally for crime victims' families in Sacramento recently, Susan Hamlin describes the upset caused by having to attend a parole hearing for someone who victimized her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the dread of this hearing, and fear of his possible release, set in a full year prior to the hearing,” Hamlin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Capitol sidewalk is lined with posters showing photos of relatives who were murdered. Gov. Brown tells the crowd they aren't forgotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you come here and show us the pictures of real human beings who are your loved ones who were murdered, then it isn't abstract,” the governor says. “It's very real. It's very individual. It's a person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, I ask the governor if he ever worries about a paroled lifer committing another violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm worried about a number of things,” he says, rattling off concerns like climate change and childhood hunger. “But after we catalog our worries, we have to do what our job is. And I try to do that with common sense and a certain degree of compassion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked to describe his approach toward lifer parole, Brown says simply “to follow the law and evaluate very carefully each case, which I do every week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When told that his record is very different from past governors, he said, \"Well, I don't know what they did and whether they read the record or whether they looked at the law. The law has changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown is referring to a 2008 decision by the California Supreme Court. It stopped blanket denials of parole based on the viciousness of a crime alone. The justices ruled that there must also be evidence that an inmate is still a threat to public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Shaffer, executive director of the state Board of Parole Hearings, says that decision changed everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you can imagine, if their crime alone could keep them from being paroled forever, then that was really not life with the possibility of parole,” Shaffer notes. “So there had to be something else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By following the new legal guidelines Shaffer says, Brown is saving the time and taxpayer expense of inmate appeals that result in lifers being paroled anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California Report analysis also finds that under Brown, the parole board is granting parole at a rate that's more than triple what it was five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Charles Carbone represents hundreds of lifers. He says Brown's appointees are taking a different approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They're more sensitive and understanding of the rights of life inmates to receive parole,” Carbone says. “There were parole commissioners in the past who just had a philosophy, if you want to call it, where they issued blanket denials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some critics, like Christine Ward with the Crime Victims Action Alliance, believe the current parole board is simply too lenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really is like playing Russian roulette,” she says. “We just hope that that one time bomb doesn't go off and create that really serious, heinous crime that will leave, not only that family devastated, but the entire state devastated. We've seen it before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what kind of risk do paroled lifers present? The Stanford Criminal Justice Center examined 860 murderers paroled in California over 15 years and found that only five were returned to prison for new felonies. That works out to less than 1 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main reason, says Weisberg, is that paroled lifers are typically older. Young people, he says, are far more likely to commit violent crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Thomas can attest to that. He went to prison at the age of 17 after killing someone during a robbery in Los Angeles. He's now 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being denied parole 14 times, Thomas was finally released last year — after 30 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody makes mistakes,” Thomas says. “Some are just more costly than others. I think once a person makes that transition from one lifestyle to another, he should be or she should be able to live their life in peace and be respected for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Given the rising number of lifers winning parole, the State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has begun new programs to help inmates prepare for life on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of our series, \"Second Chance: Lifers and Parole in California.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/behind-californias-dramatic-increase-in-lifers-freed-from-prison/\" target=\"_blank\">Behind California?s Dramatic Increase in Lifers Freed from Prisons\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More: \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201405161630/b\" target=\"_blank\">Former Lifers Discuss Hopes, Fears After Winning Parole\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/timeline-a-history-of-the-california-lifers-up-for-parole/?__utma=34673459.643003035.1412104317.1412121311.1412130030.7&__utmb=34673459.55.10.1412130032&__utmc=34673459&__utmx=-&__utmz=34673459.1412116048.4.2.utmcsr=google%7Cutmccn=%28organic%29%7Cutmcmd=organic%7Cutmctr=%28not%20provided%29&__utmv=-&__utmk=152166971\" target=\"_blank\">Timeline: History of California Lifers Up for Parole\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10341817/record-numbers-of-states-lifer-inmates-granted-parole","authors":["255"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188"],"tags":["news_6327","news_3930"],"featImg":"news_10341818","label":"news_72"},"news_135494":{"type":"posts","id":"news_135494","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"135494","score":null,"sort":[1400156100000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"behind-californias-dramatic-increase-in-murderers-freed-from-prisons","title":"Behind California's Dramatic Increase in Lifers Freed from Prisons","publishDate":1400156100,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>[http_redir]Amid the specter of rising violent crime rates and “tough on crime” posturing from both Democrats and Republicans, California voters in 1988 approved Proposition 89, amending the state constitution so that governors could directly intervene in the parole process for inmates sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. The measure, which passed with 55 percent of the vote, allowed the governor to rescind parole for offenders who had committed murder — the most common crime for so-called lifers sentenced to unfixed terms like “15 years to life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The political calculus for governors, when reviewing parole decisions, was obvious: No governor wanted to stand accused of letting a convicted murderer roam the streets. Gov. Gray Davis reversed positive parole decisions more than 90 percent of the time, while Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reversed 70 percent of the cases that came across his desk. (Gov. Pete Wilson was far more lenient, although he reviewed significantly fewer cases during his two terms in office.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"afff123ae2c086bd165f77cdaedf159b\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of the 1990s and 2000s, the state Board of Parole Hearings was unlikely to grant parole in the first place to convicted murderers. When combined with the governors' high reversal rates, the result was a mounting number of inmates serving life terms in state prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About one in five inmates in California prisons serves a life sentence with the possibility of parole — the highest percentage of lifers in a state prison population in the country. As of last year, there were more than 26,000 lifers behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of the past two decades, the odds that a lifer would ever set foot outside prison walls were slim. In 2010, a parole-eligible offender who had committed murder stood a 6 percent chance of leaving prison through the conventional parole process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years later, the prospects for lifer parole had improved dramatically, and now lifers are leaving prison in record numbers. In the first 2½ years of the Brown administration, more lifers were released from prison (1,205) than during the previous three administrations combined (1,168).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to Scott Shafer's California Report story on Lifer Releases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/149719557&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unprecedented exodus of lifers in recent years sparks several serious questions for California. What programs are in place to ensure that lifers can make a smooth transition into an outside world radically different from when they were first incarcerated? What are the political implications of this trend in an election year? And perhaps, most importantly, why is this happening now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several factors account for the spike in lifer releases in recent years, including landmark court decisions, rising caseloads and shifting attitudes among the Board of Parole Hearings and the Brown administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Lifer Exodus\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The number of lifers released from state prison has increased significantly over the past five years, with a dramatic uptick occurring in the last three. The trend began in 2009, a year after a key California Supreme Court ruling limiting the reasons a lifer may be denied parole. From 1991 through July 2013, 2,373 lifers have left California prisons. More than half of that total has occurred in the last 2.5 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, California voters approved Proposition 36, which modified the state’s 1994 three-strikes law. The measure allowed inmates sentenced to life in prison to petition for resentencing and release if their third-strike felony was not serious or violent. While not lifers in the traditional sense (and not included in the chart below), the number of “Prop. 36ers” released since 2012 nearly doubles the count of offenders once facing life in prison who are now set to be released under Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://projects1.kqed.org/lifers/index.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small\">\u003cem>Sources: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small\">\u003cem>Note: Lifer releases through July 2013. It is important to note that, because of court challenges and the time lag between a parole grant and date of release, individuals paroled under one administration may not be released until a new administration.\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Parole Granted More Often\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Once a lifer serves the minimum amount of time required by his or her sentence in prison, a parole hearing date is set. A Board of Parole Hearings commissioner then hears the inmate’s case for getting out of prison, basing the decision on whether the inmate poses an unreasonable danger to society upon release. Commissioners are appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate Rules Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in 2009, the parole grant rate has increased dramatically. In 2008, the California Supreme Court issued a decision upholding the parole of Sandra Davis Lawrence, an inmate of 24 years convicted of murdering her lover’s wife. The court overturned Schwarzenegger’s reversal of Lawrence’s parole, ruling that decisions on parole grants should be based exclusively on the likelihood a parolee would reoffend. The Lawrence decision, combined with the changing composition of the Board of Parole Hearings since the arrival of Brown, had spurred a marked increase in the number of lifers being paroled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://projects1.kqed.org/lifers/PBH.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small\">\u003cem>Sources: BPH Suitability Hearing Summary, CY 1978-2012; BPH Lifer Scheduling and Tracking System; Stanford Criminal Law Center\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small\">\u003cem> Notes: Following methodology of Stanford Criminal Law Center, grant rate is calculated by dividing the number of parole grants in a given year by the number of conducted hearings.\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Brown Administration Less Likely To Interfere\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Because of Prop. 89, California is one of only three states (Maryland and Oklahoma are the other two) where governors have the authority to review and reverse parole board recommendations for lifers. For lifers convicted of first- or second-degree murder, the governor may reverse the parole board’s grant outright. For lifers convicted of other crimes, the governor may send the parole case back to the full board of commissioners for reconsideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The higher parole rate for lifers has resulted in a record numbers of parole cases coming across the governor’s desk for review. In his first three years in office, Brown has reviewed nearly 1,678 lifer parole cases, nearly matching the total reviewed by Schwarzenegger over a seven-year period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://projects1.kqed.org/lifers/reversalrate.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small\">\u003cem>Sources: Stanford Criminal Justice Center, Governor's Office\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small\">\u003cem>Note: Reversal rate is the percentage of parole grants for murder offenses reviewed by the governor's office that the governor reverses. Some parole decisions in November and December 2003 may be incorrectly attributed to Davis because of data limitations. Data through mid-December 2013.\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Govs. Schwarzenegger and Davis, Brown has been much less likely to interfere in the parole recommendations of the board. The reversal rate for Davis never dipped below 90 percent and the reversal rate for Schwarzenegger never dipped below 60 percent, but Brown has reversed less than 20 percent of the cases that have come across his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Brown administration has argued that the governor’s lower reversal rate stems from a more accurate interpretation of the laws behind parole review. According to the governor’s office, from January 2011 to June 2012, 111 of 158 reversals issued by Schwarzenegger were overturned in the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comprehensive data on the number of lifers granted parole through the courts is not available.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lower Risk of Recidivism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While comprehensive data on how lifers fare after their release are limited, most studies point to a very low risk of recidivism. One study found that among 860 murderers paroled in California since 1995, only five individuals have returned to jail for new felonies since being released, and none of them for “life-term” crimes like murder. That stands in stark contrast to the state’s overall prisoner recidivism rate, which has neared 50 percent in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason behind lifers’ presumed lower risk of reoffending is simple: age. Most criminals typically “age out of crime” after they turn 30. The average age of lifers at the time of their parole hearing was 51.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of our series, \"Second Chance: Lifers and Parole in California.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Graphics by Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"An increasing percentage of murderers serving life sentences are being paroled. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1496253040,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1356},"headData":{"title":"Behind California's Dramatic Increase in Lifers Freed from Prisons | KQED","description":"An increasing percentage of murderers serving life sentences are being paroled. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Behind California's Dramatic Increase in Lifers Freed from Prisons","datePublished":"2014-05-15T12:15:00.000Z","dateModified":"2017-05-31T17:50:40.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"135494 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=135494","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/05/15/behind-californias-dramatic-increase-in-murderers-freed-from-prisons/","disqusTitle":"Behind California's Dramatic Increase in Lifers Freed from Prisons","customPermalink":"behind-californias-dramatic-increase-in-lifers-freed-from-prison/","nprByline":"Matt Levin","path":"/news/135494/behind-californias-dramatic-increase-in-murderers-freed-from-prisons","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>[http_redir]Amid the specter of rising violent crime rates and “tough on crime” posturing from both Democrats and Republicans, California voters in 1988 approved Proposition 89, amending the state constitution so that governors could directly intervene in the parole process for inmates sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. The measure, which passed with 55 percent of the vote, allowed the governor to rescind parole for offenders who had committed murder — the most common crime for so-called lifers sentenced to unfixed terms like “15 years to life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The political calculus for governors, when reviewing parole decisions, was obvious: No governor wanted to stand accused of letting a convicted murderer roam the streets. Gov. Gray Davis reversed positive parole decisions more than 90 percent of the time, while Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reversed 70 percent of the cases that came across his desk. (Gov. Pete Wilson was far more lenient, although he reviewed significantly fewer cases during his two terms in office.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of the 1990s and 2000s, the state Board of Parole Hearings was unlikely to grant parole in the first place to convicted murderers. When combined with the governors' high reversal rates, the result was a mounting number of inmates serving life terms in state prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About one in five inmates in California prisons serves a life sentence with the possibility of parole — the highest percentage of lifers in a state prison population in the country. As of last year, there were more than 26,000 lifers behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of the past two decades, the odds that a lifer would ever set foot outside prison walls were slim. In 2010, a parole-eligible offender who had committed murder stood a 6 percent chance of leaving prison through the conventional parole process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years later, the prospects for lifer parole had improved dramatically, and now lifers are leaving prison in record numbers. In the first 2½ years of the Brown administration, more lifers were released from prison (1,205) than during the previous three administrations combined (1,168).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to Scott Shafer's California Report story on Lifer Releases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/149719557&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unprecedented exodus of lifers in recent years sparks several serious questions for California. What programs are in place to ensure that lifers can make a smooth transition into an outside world radically different from when they were first incarcerated? What are the political implications of this trend in an election year? And perhaps, most importantly, why is this happening now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several factors account for the spike in lifer releases in recent years, including landmark court decisions, rising caseloads and shifting attitudes among the Board of Parole Hearings and the Brown administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Lifer Exodus\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The number of lifers released from state prison has increased significantly over the past five years, with a dramatic uptick occurring in the last three. The trend began in 2009, a year after a key California Supreme Court ruling limiting the reasons a lifer may be denied parole. From 1991 through July 2013, 2,373 lifers have left California prisons. More than half of that total has occurred in the last 2.5 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, California voters approved Proposition 36, which modified the state’s 1994 three-strikes law. The measure allowed inmates sentenced to life in prison to petition for resentencing and release if their third-strike felony was not serious or violent. While not lifers in the traditional sense (and not included in the chart below), the number of “Prop. 36ers” released since 2012 nearly doubles the count of offenders once facing life in prison who are now set to be released under Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://projects1.kqed.org/lifers/index.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small\">\u003cem>Sources: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small\">\u003cem>Note: Lifer releases through July 2013. It is important to note that, because of court challenges and the time lag between a parole grant and date of release, individuals paroled under one administration may not be released until a new administration.\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Parole Granted More Often\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Once a lifer serves the minimum amount of time required by his or her sentence in prison, a parole hearing date is set. A Board of Parole Hearings commissioner then hears the inmate’s case for getting out of prison, basing the decision on whether the inmate poses an unreasonable danger to society upon release. Commissioners are appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate Rules Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in 2009, the parole grant rate has increased dramatically. In 2008, the California Supreme Court issued a decision upholding the parole of Sandra Davis Lawrence, an inmate of 24 years convicted of murdering her lover’s wife. The court overturned Schwarzenegger’s reversal of Lawrence’s parole, ruling that decisions on parole grants should be based exclusively on the likelihood a parolee would reoffend. The Lawrence decision, combined with the changing composition of the Board of Parole Hearings since the arrival of Brown, had spurred a marked increase in the number of lifers being paroled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://projects1.kqed.org/lifers/PBH.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small\">\u003cem>Sources: BPH Suitability Hearing Summary, CY 1978-2012; BPH Lifer Scheduling and Tracking System; Stanford Criminal Law Center\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small\">\u003cem> Notes: Following methodology of Stanford Criminal Law Center, grant rate is calculated by dividing the number of parole grants in a given year by the number of conducted hearings.\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Brown Administration Less Likely To Interfere\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Because of Prop. 89, California is one of only three states (Maryland and Oklahoma are the other two) where governors have the authority to review and reverse parole board recommendations for lifers. For lifers convicted of first- or second-degree murder, the governor may reverse the parole board’s grant outright. For lifers convicted of other crimes, the governor may send the parole case back to the full board of commissioners for reconsideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The higher parole rate for lifers has resulted in a record numbers of parole cases coming across the governor’s desk for review. In his first three years in office, Brown has reviewed nearly 1,678 lifer parole cases, nearly matching the total reviewed by Schwarzenegger over a seven-year period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://projects1.kqed.org/lifers/reversalrate.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small\">\u003cem>Sources: Stanford Criminal Justice Center, Governor's Office\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small\">\u003cem>Note: Reversal rate is the percentage of parole grants for murder offenses reviewed by the governor's office that the governor reverses. Some parole decisions in November and December 2003 may be incorrectly attributed to Davis because of data limitations. Data through mid-December 2013.\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Govs. Schwarzenegger and Davis, Brown has been much less likely to interfere in the parole recommendations of the board. The reversal rate for Davis never dipped below 90 percent and the reversal rate for Schwarzenegger never dipped below 60 percent, but Brown has reversed less than 20 percent of the cases that have come across his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Brown administration has argued that the governor’s lower reversal rate stems from a more accurate interpretation of the laws behind parole review. According to the governor’s office, from January 2011 to June 2012, 111 of 158 reversals issued by Schwarzenegger were overturned in the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comprehensive data on the number of lifers granted parole through the courts is not available.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lower Risk of Recidivism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While comprehensive data on how lifers fare after their release are limited, most studies point to a very low risk of recidivism. One study found that among 860 murderers paroled in California since 1995, only five individuals have returned to jail for new felonies since being released, and none of them for “life-term” crimes like murder. That stands in stark contrast to the state’s overall prisoner recidivism rate, which has neared 50 percent in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason behind lifers’ presumed lower risk of reoffending is simple: age. Most criminals typically “age out of crime” after they turn 30. 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