Can You Talk Your Way Out of a Life Sentence?

Telling life stories for parole.

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Nearly 40,000 inmates are serving life sentences in California’s prisons. But new laws have allowed some of them to be eligible for parole — if they can make the case to the parole board that they are suitable candidates for release. In our cover story this week, Dashka Slater follows two such parole-seeking lifers who must try to tell their life story in a way that proves they have reckoned with their pasts.

OUR COVER STORY: Djeneba Aduayom for The New York Times   Can You Talk Your Way Out of a Life Sentence? California is giving a second chance to thousands of inmates who had no hope of parole. But first they have to prove to a panel of strangers that they’ve truly changed. By Dashka Slater

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