# Man Eligible For Parole - In The Year 3029

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 3, 2008, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-eligible-for-parole-in-the-year-3029/455171 "2008-07-03T09:51:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-eligible-for-parole-in-the-year-3029/455171/21 "2008-07-04T04:35:47Z")

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[QUOTE=gonzomax]  
I wonder if the parole board will let him out?  
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It’s hard to predict, since everything they think do and say, will be in the pill they took that day.

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**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-eligible-for-parole-in-the-year-3029/455171/22 "2008-07-04T04:39:31Z")

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In some Ballardian dystopian future, maybe they’ll be able to actually keep people alive for hundreds of years, just for the purposes of forcing them to serve out their whole sentence.

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