“Yes, you may apply to the parole board”. The parole board has the last word, you see. I have to trust the same people who let him go before. He committed murder, as they had predicted. It's difficult for me to do that.
You know, I've been told by prison officials, people who work there.... I talk to these people, many kinds of people, about crime issues all the time. I was kind of amused one day when a lady who has great knowledge told me, “Oh, you know, they could be in there for 13 years and then all of a sudden, because section 745 time is coming up, they find God. They become model prisoners in the last two years.”
They become model prisoners—new, changed, remorseful, etc., all the right words. They take all the right courses and so on. Then, of course, when it comes to the trial, it looks good on their record, doesn't it? All the last two years, how well they've turned their lives around. Is it really true, or is it a ploy to receive permission to ask the parole board to be released? Then, of course, the parole board has the final word.