PDF Parole loosens for 30-years-to-lifers, including those sentenced as juveniles in New Mexico
This article discusses changes to parole in New Mexico, including legislation that would have banned juvenile life without parole and created early parole for those serving long adult sentences for crimes committed as children. The article highlights a new rule adopted by the New Mexico Parole Board that requires a more individualized, thorough exploration of how someone has or hasn’t changed while in prison—with far less focus on the circumstances of a decades-old crime—when deciding on release. The article also tells the story of Shane Lasiter, who was recently paroled after spending 40 years incarcerated for a crime committed as a child.