In this article I rely on 50 years’ worth of parole hearing transcripts in the Manson family cases to argue that, on parole, the embodiment of aging is treated evasively and with hostility by the parole board. The parole board’s difficulty to reconcile the applicant’s youthful and violent past with their aging, frail present, almost always results in a rejection of the embodied present and future—and of parole. Following an explanation of the California parole process, emphasizing the role that time and aging plays in its different stages, I analyze Susan Atkins’ last parole hearing as an example. To show the general implications of the analysis, and its disastrous consequences for public health, I place the argument in the context of California’s covid-19 prison crisis.

在这篇文章中，我根据曼森家族案件中 50 年的假释听证记录证明，假释期间，假释委员会对衰老的化身进行了回避和敌意的对待。假释委员会很难将申请人年轻而暴力的过去与他们年老体弱的现在调和起来，这几乎总是导致拒绝具体的现在和未来——以及假释。继对加州假释程序的解释，强调时间和衰老在其不同阶段所起的作用之后，我以苏珊阿特金斯的最后一次假释听证会为例进行分析。为了显示分析的一般意义及其对公共健康的灾难性后果，我将论点置于加利福尼亚州covid -19 监狱危机的背景下。