25 years to life?

No. You have to do the first 25 years. When that time is over, you can get paroled if your behavior was good (which is unrealistic).

It does depend on the state. Usually one has to serve 2/3 of the 25 years. If they keep their nose clean their chances of parole is increased, but if they do get write ups they will serve the whole 25 before they see the parole board. Of course, since it is 25 to life they can be kept in longer (past the 25) if they are trouble makers. Check out your own state statutes.

Yes. The handed down sentence means you will serve will be eligible for parole in 25 years but can serve as long as a life sentence if your parole is denied for your natural life in prison. Different states givern their corrections department differently, and some states have statutes that allow a person to get out before 25 years is served, typically due to overcrowding of prisons, budget cuts and all the other red tape that goes on once a person is convicted.

it will depend on the state ( if in the US) in some places, you can get parole in 15 years on a 25 year sentence.

It relies upon on the guidelines of the state and whether or not they are sentenced to existence in reformatory without the possibility of parole. If someone is sentenced to existence in the state of California, then she or he could be eligible for parole after serving 25 years. that would not advise they could get out after 25 years. they could additionally could convince a parole board to furnish them launch on parole. If on the different hand they are sentenced to existence without parole, then they are in for retains and don't go away till they are ineffective.

no.....parole hearings can happen before 25 years

You never know when some scheming liberal attorney will come along during that time and try to get him out, so that he'll be free to kill, maim, rape or ruin someone's life again.

So in answer to your question, it means until the time that that liberal attorney appears.

Liberalism is the Plague of the 21st Century.

Yes, but there is always the possability of time off for good behavior.

That is what it was initially intended to be...until the liberals bastardized the legal system

I suppose there might be some consideration for whatever crime was commited.