my thanks for leander kahney and jon swartz. you can find this this episode and our archive of older interviews in our website pressheretv.com. i'm scott mcgrew. thank you for making us a part of your sunday morning. i was told that i was at risk for sudden cardiac death. i was 23 years old, i wasn't overweight. i never dreamed this would happen to me. when the doctor told me i had three blocked arteries, i felt like i was punched in the gut.

board each year just about seventeen percent are found suitable for parole and of those governor swartz a nigger has overturned more than sixty percent previous governors reversed ninety percent so why why this obsession with incarceration because most governors in california certainly at some point in their career feel that they may have. possibility of running for president they're concerned about granting parole to inmates who might go out and commit a serious crime but many of these women's records show they would not be a danger to society that they were young and scared for their lives or for the lives of their children. ok those are the number we. are on the way to be on the one. end of the line for many is here. in prison for life despite their sentence you can't turn parole board of sentences into. what we call l.-wop sentences life without possibility of parole simply because. victims rights groups or others think that if you've been convicted of murder you should never be paroled a broken system chance is given then taken away here and still hope the system will change for ca