CA Senate votes to allow parole of violent felons with life sentences

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(The Center Square) – The California Senate passed a bill that will allow violent convicts with life sentences to be eligible for parole after serving 25 years, so long as the convict was younger than 26 when the crime was committed. 

Republicans decried the bill as a threat to public safety.

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