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Release violent lifers? The California parole board is crazy

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California’s soft-on-crime lunacy continues –– and we’re glad to see a victims’ rights group fighting back.

The Criminal Justice Legal Foundation is suing over regulations by the California Board of Parole Hearings that could make it easier for at least some of the state’s heinous criminals to win early release from prison.

Good. The parole board’s move –– which could facilitate the freedom of some of California’s most violent lifers –– is nuts.

Per the foundation and its law enforcement allies, the new regulations could render thousands of state prison inmates –– including those convicted of murder, torture and crimes against children –– eligible for early release.

Does any sane, law-abiding Californian actually want that?

How many more victims would fall prey to these thousands of felons, should some be released? 

Among the convicts potentially eligible to walk are some serving “life without the possibility of parole,” the foundation says.

So the crimes were so egregious that a court determined the offenders should be confined for life, and the state parole board might say, in effect, “never mind, we know better than the judge and jury”?

It would also be a gut........

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