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"The Cost Benefit of Supporting Pennsylvania Senate Bill 942." On November the 11th, 2019, Pennsylvania State Senator Sharif Street introduced Senate Bill 942 to help us finally get parole eligibility for our loved ones serving death by incarceration or life without parole sentences in Pennsylvania—a struggle going on for about 50 years in this state. From the 1970s until today, we can guesstimate that thousands—if not more—of lifer men and women in the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections have died slow, agonizing, lonely deaths in prison from serving death by incarceration sentences. This must end. People deserve second chances. Placing emotions aside and looking at Senate Bill 942 from a practical standpoint, SB 942 is a bill we can get fully behind to support its passage and with good reason, here is why: for the first time in Pennsylvania history, there will be parole eligibility for incarcerated men and women condemned to death through life without parole sentencing schemes. A couple of thousand lifer