In 1984, Washington state was on the front edge of a national movement, pushed forward by federal grant dollars, which encouraged states to abandon parole and adopt a system of determinate and mandatory sentences. Since then, Washington state has not had parole. As a result, we’ve learned that issuing sentences without the possibility of parole has made reform irrelevant and has turned the state’s prisons into warehouses that do nothing to train individuals to return to society. ...