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Updates on all the prison craziness in California

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this Los Angeles Times article, legislators in California finalized its "plan to cut the state's giant prisons budget, passing a hard-fought measure that would reduce the inmate population by thousands but stop far short of solving the overcrowding crisis."  Here are more of the specific details: The prisons measure, SBX3 18 by Sen. Denise Moreno Ducheny (D-San Diego), would reduce supervision of low-level offenders on parole so they could not be sent back for violating the terms of their release. It would allow some offenders to earn shorter terms by completing rehabilitation programs.Legislative officials estimated that under the measure, the prison population would fall by 20,000 to 25,000 over two years. But the bill no longer contains provisions passed by the Senate that would have moved thousands of inmates to home detention and created a commission with the power to change state sentencing laws...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 12, 2009 (boomark / email).