Posted on 07/20/2022 10:32:37 AM PDT by John Semmens
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has decided to disband the Parole Unit of his office. This unit, also known as the Lifer Unit, helped keep victims of crime and their family members in the loop for information regarding the potential release of the convicted perpetrators. Gascón previously barred prosecutors from attending parole hearings.
Gascón called these steps "part of the healing process. The victims of crime have already suffered enough. Why trigger their anguish by reminding them that the perps who hurt them might be getting out of prison. As far as they know, these convicts were sentenced to life in prison. We shouldn't cast this valuable illusion away by inviting victims to carry a grudge to parole board hearings."
"More importantly, I believe everyone deserves a second chance," the DA professed. "Prison changes people. Isolated from the societal pressures that provoked some vicious act of rape, assault, or murder, a long-term convict can become a changed man. The prison authorities who oversee that process ought to be allowed to assess the inmate's fitness for release without the emotional interference of people recalling the way he was when his crime was committed. Forgive and forget is my motto."
Citizens of Los Angeles don't seem to share their District Attorney's motto. Their dissatisfaction with the job he is doing led them to collect 700,000 signatures calling for his ouster from office. Perhaps the surge in crime since he took office is too memorable to be forgotten and too egregious to be forgiven.
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