What IS THE ELDERLY PAROLE PROGRAM?

In 2013, as part of the Plata decision, a three-judge panel ordered CDCR to create a procedure enabling elderly individuals to face the Board of Parole Hearings before their minimum eligible parole date.[325] On January 1, 2018, the Legislature amended the Penal Code to include a provision on the Elderly Parole Program, changing it from a CDCR policy into state law.[326]

  1. 325

    Board of Parole Hearings Memorandum, “Elderly Parole Program” (June 16, 2014), available at https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/BOPH/docs/Policy/Elderly_Parole_Program_Overview.pdf.

  2. 326

    Legislative Counsel’s Digest for AB 1448, published on Oct. 10, 2017, available at http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1448.