[gracesdad]

Must serve 30 of 70 years? I didn’t know Texas had such liberal parole laws.

[dayglored]

> Must serve 30 of 70 years? I didn’t know Texas had such liberal parole laws.

With any luck he won't survive more than a few years in prison. Child molesters have a high probability of getting bumped off by the more "principled" prisoners. There are some crimes so immoral they gag a maggot.

[Two Kids' Dad]

Yeah, but those 30 years will almost certainly be in protective custody (23 hours a day alone in his cell) because if they put him in “general population” he’d be killed within a week. 30 years of solitary confinement will feel like at least 70 years to this creep.

[Alter Kaker]

Must serve 30 of 70 years? I didn’t know Texas had such liberal parole laws.

30 years is liberal? Anyway that's the minimum. He could serve more.

[TKDietz]

“Must serve 30 of 70 years? I didn’t know Texas had such liberal parole laws.”

Most states do now. There's no room in the prisons and no more money to build new prisons. The same lawmakers who pass tough on crime laws have to pass measures to let people out earlier and earlier to make room for all the new convicts. It wouldn't be so bad if we didn't have so many going down for so long on piddly little drug cases.