On February 10, 2014, the federal three-judge court overseeing the California prison overcrowding class action case (Plata/Coleman v. Brown) issued order that required the State to develop and implement “a new parole process whereby inmate who are 60 years of age of older and have served a minimum of twenty-five years of their sentence will be referred to the Board of Parole Hearings to determine suitability for parole”
No Time to Wait: A Case for Releasing Elders from California’s Women’s Prisons
This report was prepared by the Policy Advocacy Clinic (PAC) at the UC Berkeley School of Law and the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) at the request of CCWP and the Close California Women’s Prisons Campaign. Download PDF: No Time to Wait_Full Report