[WildHighlander57]

So when does “without possibility of parole” change to something else?

What ‘higher authority’ has the power to change “without possibility of parole” to something —other— than what it means?

[jjotto]

They just call it ‘furlough’ or some such.

[Truth29]

Commutation of sentence by the President, sometimes a Governor, finding of trial error by subsequent court action and the order of a new trial, group release to relieve overcrowding ordered by a legislature, legislative change to end life without parole as in many other countries, and whatever else might come along as long as the prisoner lives.