The recidivism rates for people released under this law is less than 1%. If we as society believe it’s worth the billions it costs to continue incarcerating people for their entire lives for punitive reasons, then we should continue doing it, but let’s not pretend it’s about public safety.

One more thing - all my kids have two middle names - a Chinese generation name (same for all kids in the generation) and an “American” name.

We made up a new last name that is a combo of our last names, so all our kids have the same last name that is different from ours, but pretty obviously a mashup of ours, so people know they’re our kids. Warning against just using the Dad’s name - my sister did that, got divorced, and is now stuck with her…