Source: kmph.com 4/8/26
EXPIRES 4/21/26!
FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) — A California parole program designed to give elderly inmates a second chance is now under scrutiny, as several convicted sex offenders granted early release are choosing Fresno as their destination.
The state’s Elderly Parole Program allows certain inmates to be considered for release at age 50 after serving at least 20 years.
While those sentenced to death or life without parole are excluded, critics say the law is still allowing dangerous offenders back into communities.
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I’m so tired of Fox using us (and trans people) as distractions when they don’t like the the other news headlines of the day, not that I blame them lately. : )
We demonize those who molest children. We assume we are monsters. I am proud to have 38 years of no criminal sexual behavior. I have learned to live in a world with children
I put a comment on that page as well a couple days ago. Comments have been unavailable since. Hard to believe that’s not deliberate.
Please, please, please vote on this poll. We need to move the needle from “no” to “yes.” When I voted, the vote was very close — 51 percent opposed and 49 percent in favor. It takes very little time to vote but voting will close in about 48 hours.
I was very impressed when I read the comments below the Fox poll. There were well-reasoned and thoughtful responses and I smiled when people were educating others and citing sources. (I’m so used to people responding with emotionally-charged knee-jerk reactions, so it was refreshing to read this comment section.)
I voted yes on the Elderly Parole Program because serving decades in prison is already the harshest lesson the state can deliver. No counselor or class can replace the reality of losing 20 or 30 years of your life. If a person comes out and lives lawfully — and is allowed to find stable housing without being pushed into homelessness by proximity rules — then that’s the system working.
If they commit a new crime, and not some manufactured technical violation used to claim ‘we knew all along,’ then prosecute them like anyone else. But we shouldn’t assume permanent danger after someone has already completed the punishment the court imposed.Every post has a ending
When a person has served every day of their sentence, completed parole, and fulfilled every obligation to the courts, victims, and the State, their punishment is supposed to be over. That’s the purpose of a sentence — it defines the limit of government authority. But many modern systems treat freedom as conditional, imposing lifelong surveillance, residency bans, employment barriers, and public exposure under the label of “civil regulation.” When the State can still dictate where someone lives, works, shops, or exists after their punishment is complete, the line between justice and perpetual control disappears. Registries don’t just monitor; they destabilize housing, employment, safety, and community life. And because they’re labeled civil, the usual constitutional protections are bypassed. This model is expanding to more offenses every year. The issue isn’t one group — it’s the precedent: if punishment can continue indefinitely under a different label, then no sentence ever truly ends, no matter the crime.
What’s the point of a poll like this? What are they really hoping to measure?
Nothing more than a way to get clicks on a screen for them and boost their ratings.
If you had done a poll in the early 1800s in the south regarding slavery you would have gotten the expected results. No different here given the continuous onslaught of negative stories and political speech about the issue.
News flash the way our society treats sex crimes needs to be overhauled and the US needs to stop mass prison sentences and end the tough on crime bs.
The risk of rehabilitation is “frightening and high”, up to 99.9%!
Better not bring public awareness to facts!
Shhh… continue to cover up the truth with more defamatory lies = slander/libel!
Criminals in positions of trust!