The California parole board can deny release for an inmate who lacks “insight” into the crime he or she committed many years ago. But a state appeals court says a prisoner who has behaved well during 34 years of confinement, and who poses a low risk of violence to the public, can’t be denied parole merely because he continues to deny the crime he was convicted of committing. The Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles said Tuesday there was no evidence to support the Board of Parole Hearings’ April 2014 decision that Fred Swanigan was unsuitable for release. The court ordered the board to conduct a new hearing but
