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Latest legislative twist suggests California won't have a sentencing commission anytime soon

By Douglas A. Berman

This blog post from the LA Times provides what seems to be the latest news out of the California legislature concerning proposed prison and sentencing reforms in that state.  Here are the basics: Assembly Speaker Karen Bass has put off a vote on a package of legislation intended to trim spending on state prisons, and she intends to eliminate a provision of the plan that would have created a commission to reevaluate California?s sentencing laws, according to an Assembly source who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. After keeping Assembly members until midnight Thursday in the hope of reaching a deal on prisons, Bass (D-Los Angeles) said she would try to approve it today. But based on conversations over the weekend, she still does not have enough votes from the Democrats who control the chamber...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 24, 2009 (boomark / email).