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”
