A woman gets a call at work.

It's the DA's office letting her know about a parole hearing.

Jennifer's world absolutely stops.

A man who raped her at knife point while her two-year-old son slept in the next room was sentenced to

56 years to life. She was told he'll be locked up until 2051. But this isn't 2015.

In 2020, California quietly slipped a law into a budget bill, not a prison bill, not a

criminal bill, a budget bill. No hearing, no debate. And this is a bill that calls anyone

over 50 elderly and allows violent offenders to qualify

for parole after just 20 years, no matter what their sentence was.

Now, supporters swore rapists, swore violent offenders would be excluded. They were not. And Sacramento, the capital in California,

still won't fix it. Now serial rapists, some with 500-year sentences, are getting out.

Survivors are blindsided by a phone call,

and the Board of Parole hearings is making their decisions behind closed doors.

No public hearing, no appeal.

And if you're thinking, hey, this isn't my problem. I don't live in California.

Well, think again, when these men are released, they don't have to stay in California.

They can move anywhere, including your neighborhood. And with states across the country facing

budget shortfalls, California's solution to empty prison

beds by releasing elderly inmates is exactly the kind of model other legislatures are going to be

looking at. Now, today, Jennifer's going to share her story. Sacramento County District Attorney

Ten Ho explains how this law works and Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, who has been firsthand looking at this

kind of thing for a long time. An absolute trendsetter is going to explain how Michigan

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