RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina's prison officials have opened the gates for some of the inmates sentenced to life in prison in the 1970s that state officials want to keep locked up.
The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Thursday that two of the 27 inmates caught in a political and legal battle over their release have been paroled and another two will be paroled in June. Four have permission to leave prison for work or worship.
Others had permission to work in the community or visit relatives, but lost those rights through prison transfers or work injuries.
The state Supreme Court is expected to rule soon whether laws in effect from 1974 to 1978 defined life sentences as 80 years. More than two dozen life sentence inmates argue their good behavior has earned them enough credits to go free.
Information from: The News & Observer
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This situation irritates me.
This situation irritates me. I work in DOC and I know a few of the guys trying to get out. Some of them, I feel should be given that 'second chance.' They accept responsibility for what they did, they've, they never made an excuse for it. At least not in our conversations. Others though, show no remorse, blame the victim, etc. I don't understand that about DOC. In most prisons they don't have enough case manager, they only meet with the inmates once every 2 months. And when they meet the case managers the inmates are on their best behavior. They never ask the people who work in the trenches; the correctional officers. The officers see the inmates 'true' behavior...but they don't listen to me, I am just a lowly c/o
inmates
To me life means until they die. They argue about there good behavior, they should have thought about that before they done the crime that landed them there to begin with.