Release violent lifers? The California parole board is crazy

California’s soft-on-crime lunacy continues –– and we’re glad to see a victims’ rights group fighting back.The Criminal Justice Legal Foundation is suing over regulations by the California Board of Parole Hearings that could make it easier for at least some of the state’s heinous criminals to win early release from prison.Good.The parole board’s move –– which could facilitate the freedom of some of California’s most violent lifers –– is nuts.Per the foundation and its law enforcement allies, the new regulations could render thousands of state prison inmates –– including those convicted of murder, torture and crimes against children –– eligible for early release.Does any sane, law-abiding Californian actually want that?How many more victims would fall prey to these thousands of felons, should some be released?  California's top news, sports and entertainment delivered to your inbox every day.

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Never miss a story Among the convicts potentially eligible to walk are some serving “life without the possibility of parole,” the foundation says.So the crimes were so egregious that a court determined the offenders should be confined for life, and the state parole board might say, in effect, “never mind, we know better than the judge and jury”?That’s galling.It would also be a gut punch to victims, and a broken promise to society, to free heinous criminals who –– we all were promised –– would be safely locked away for life.The legal foundation says the parole board exceeded its authority by making such a sweeping change to the state’s legal system without either legislative or voter assent.Good point.State officials wouldn’t dare put this scheme before voters, and even soft-on-crime legislators might not go this far.California Post News: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Y...