Thursday, April 02, 2015

DEALING WITH CALIFORNIA’S PRISON OVERCROWDING

A parole board panel has approved Chowchilla school bus kidnapper James Schoenfeld for parole

In 1976, James Schoenfeld, now 63, his brother and another man kidnapped a busload of Chowchilla schoolchildren and their bus driver, and buried them alive.

On Wednesday, at the California Men’s colony in San Luis Obispo, a two member panel of the parole board approved Schoenfeld for parole. It was his 20th parole hearing.

Richard Schoenfeld, his younger brother, was paroled in 2012. Fred Woods, the third kidnapper, is scheduled for a parole hearing this fall.

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