These are the same people who advocate lowering the voting age to 16: "we need soft, undeveloped minds in the voting booth; the future of the Democratic Party is at stake.”

Republicans proposed amendments that would have carved out exceptions to the early parole eligibility for perpetrators of certain crimes, including murder, rape, sexual assault of a minor and assault of an elderly or disabled person. The amendments failed on party-line votes. 

CT bill to expand parole eligibility clears Senate over GOP objection

Proponents say the bill is in line with current knowledge of brain science. Opponents say it negates the responsibility of people who have committed terrible crimes.

A bill that would expand eligibility for parole to people who committed crimes at a young age passed the Senate on Tuesday over strong objection and criticism from Republicans. 

Current law, which was passed in 2023, allows people who committed crimes when they were 21 years old or younger to become eligible for parole after having served 60% of a sentence of less than 50 years, or 30 years of a sentence of more than 50 years. But the bill only applies to people who were sentenced before Oct. 1, 2005. 

Senate Bill 503, which passed the Senate 24-12 on party lines, would eliminate that cutoff date and raise the age from 21 to 25 years old or younger for early parole eligibility. The bill would also require judges to consider scientific evidence around the brain development of people in their 20s when sentencing someone who committed an A or B felony as a young adult.  

…. Winfield referenced scientific research of brain development regarding young people’s impulse control and ability to make decisions in high-stress environments. Advocates for the bill have stressed that the areas of the brain that regulate things like impulse control, planning, weighing long-term consequences and delayed gratification do not become fully developed until a person reaches their mid-20s. 

If an individual has been sentenced to 50 years in prison, he’s been convicted of committing a crime so horrendous, so horrible, that even the most liberal judge was appalled and considered him to be an animal, one that should be locked away for life. These are not mere killings in the heat of an argument being talked about here, yet Democrats stand ready to forgive him for his “bad judgment”, and “inability to weigh long-term consequences”.

I suggest that if 16- 24-year-olds are incapable of predicting and understanding the long-term consequences of breaking into a house, raping, then murdering the family inside, they are also incapable of grasping the just-as-serious but less obvious long-term consequences of socialism , and every other whacko idea for social reform foisted on them by their NEA brainwashers.

What a state. What a party.