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Featured on Oct 20, 2025 by Null: Have you ever wondered how Parole hearings in the State of Louisiana work?
STATE OF LOUISIANA
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS
PAROLE BOARD HEARINGS
Under the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, all men are free unless deprived of freedom by due process. This means slavery is still legal in the United States for convicts. Enter Angola: the largest prison in the country with the largest prison population per capita, where the convicts of Louisiana still literally pick cotton.
Convicts in Angola are eligible for Parole. It is important to understand what Parole is and what it is not. Almost no states in the US have Parole anymore. Previously, a Parole board (by their own discretion) could release early any person convicted of any crime for any reason or no reason at all. This angered the public. People would let be let go very early for horrific crimes. People would be denied parole under favorable conditions, leading to accusations of racism and other discrimination.
When parole was abolished in most states in the 90s during a tough-on-crime wave across the US, it caused a serious problem for prisons: without any possibility for early release, there was no incentive to behave in the prison system. All time must be served, and so a terrible prisoner would serve their full sentence same as a model prisoner. Thus, probation was created. Probation is a mathematical calculation and impartial way of calculating early release based off of good time, where the Warden gains discretion to decide what time is good time, as he has both the means and incentive to keep prisoners behaving well.
Louisiana was unphased by these changes and stuck to the tried-and-true: Parole. Not to stay too old fashioned, Louisiana's Department of Corrections entered the 21st Century by creating a YouTube channel for their parole hearings.
This YouTube channel serves a public benefit by allowing members of the public to see in real time how the parole system works. It also allows victims, family members, and any concerned party to listen in.
Unattended consequences: 4chan's /pol/ and the Kiwi Farms BossmanJack livechat take bets on who's getting released in real time, grade the parole board members faces on a TND and fatigue scale, post gifs of Uncle Ruckus saying "hang that nigga now", and call every defense attorney a coalburning liberal harpy.
There are several kinds of hearings. There are hearings to evaluate requests for new parole, requests for modifying parole, hearings for parolees who have violated parole and may find themselves back in prison, and more. Men serve in Angola but female prisoners also appear before the board.
WHO?
WHEN?
EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
WHERE?
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/@LAPardonParole/live
Discuss: https://kiwifarms.st/chat/keno-kasino.15/
WHY?
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. If you see the stream is live, check the chat, if keno members are already talking about the hearings, feel free to contribute, but if we're talking about something else, don't shit up the chat kthx (a post or two that the hearings are live is fine)
