On 2023-07-14 1:33 a.m., Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> On 2023-07-11, GM <
gregorymorr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Van Houten was released on parole on July 11, 2023..."
>
>
> I'm a cold hearted man. I watch crime and investigation TV all the time.
> Killers of multiple people get life sentences and are paroled after
> twenty years.
Twenty? That's more than a lot of them would serve up here. We used to
have capital punishment but they did away with that about 60 years ago.
Now they usually get life in jail, but that isn't life because,
depending on the circumstances they are eligible for parole about as
little as 15 years. Then there is Mandatory Release where they try to
ship them out after they serve 2/3 of their sentence. As a result,
someone who might have been excuted 70 years ago might now serve only 10
years in jail.
> Van Houten's release doesn't bother me after fifty three years. Modern
> psychologists would say she had a drug addiction and Stockholm Syndrome
> and should have been paroled after ten years.
> I've been married since the year she first went to jail. Times change.
> I don't like it, but I guess things happen that way.
There is a current uproar about Paul Bernardo a local serial murderer
and rapist. He had been sentenced to life and had been declared a
Dangerous Offender, which would have him locked up for life. He has been
eligible for parole but was turned down. He was recently moved to a
medium security prison. The politicians are scrambling to distance
themselves from that and have been caught lying about not having been
informed. People are really pissed about him being allowed the relative
luxury of a medium security prison. What most people are not aware of it
that this is usually a step toward release. They typically move them to
low security, then start giving them day passes and eventually release
them on parole.