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The judge will make a decision as to whether the young person’s case will go to adult court or instead stay in juvenile court.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003ch2>Where Did Direct File Come From?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The current standards for direct file became a part of California law in 2000, when voters passed \u003ca href=\"http://vigarchive.sos.ca.gov/2000/primary/propositions/21text.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 21\u003c/a>, a tough-on-crime ballot initiative aimed at youth crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1990s, adult and youth crime rates surged across the country. Academics and the media hypothesized that there was a new kind of kid out there — one who could commit crimes without remorse. They called this kid a superpredator and predicted there would be a rise in superpredators and their resulting crimes in the years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That theory has since been discredited, and the surge in crime never happened. 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The full list is in \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=WIC§ionNum=707.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California’s Welfare and Institutions Code, Section 707(b)\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the Argument for Direct File?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>District attorneys say:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Direct file is a helpful tool reserved for serious crimes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If they believe a young person can’t be rehabilitated in the amount of time they’d be sentenced to in juvenile court, or if they can’t be rehabilitated through the programs available in a certain county, that young person should go to adult court.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A fitness hearing takes months of preparation in an already bogged-down system. If DAs believe the young person will end up in adult court anyway, this is a waste of time and resources.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If a young person cannot be rehabilitated, they shouldn’t be in the community committing more crimes.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003ch2>What’s the Argument Against Direct File?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Youth advocates and public defenders say:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Prosecutors are making these decisions behind closed doors and don’t keep records. Those against direct file argue this is not due process.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The 48 hours that DAs typically have to make a decision is not enough time to understand a child — their family background, their mental health, their traumas. They say a hearing in front of a judge would let more of this information out.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Direct file is used differently across all 58 of California’s counties. \u003ca href=\"http://youthlaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/The-Prosecution-of-Youth-as-Adults.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A recent report\u003c/a> shows that in 2014, you’d be 78 times more likely to be direct filed in Kings County — in the Central Valley — than in Los Angeles. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjcj.org/uploads/cjcj/documents/do_politics_influence_the_prosecution_of_youth_as_adults.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A recent analysis\u003c/a> also shows that counties with Republican DAs use direct file at 2.4 times the rate of counties with Democratic DAs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-FsfGm\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/FsfGm/1/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" oallowfullscreen=\"oallowfullscreen\" msallowfullscreen=\"msallowfullscreen\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cli>There are racial disparities in the use of direct file. 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When they get out, they’re more likely to be violent and to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/220595.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">return to prison\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”ZTM2axSBLeyWYOuUsVvw1A9MgJUD9CHE”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When these young people go to prison for years, there can be devastating effects on their family and community.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where Is Direct File on the November Ballot?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Part of \u003ca href=\"http://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2016/general/en/pdf/text-proposed-laws.pdf#prop57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 57\u003c/a> is about direct file, and if the proposition passes, direct file — both mandatory and discretionary — can no longer be used in California. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In 2000, Californians passed \u003ca href=\"http://vigarchive.sos.ca.gov/2000/primary/propositions/21text.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 21\u003c/a>, a tough-on-crime measure that found success in the wake of heightened fears of a surge in youth crime in the 1990s. While that surge in crime didn’t come to pass, Proposition 21 had a big impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative allowed a district attorney — not a judge — to decide whether to send a young person between 14 and 17 years old to adult court. That practice is called direct file.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This November, Californians have the opportunity to eliminate direct file. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/proposition-57/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 57\u003c/a>, if approved, would do away with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Is Direct File?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are three ways to send juveniles to adult court instead of keeping them in the juvenile system. Two of them are direct file:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Discretionary direct file.\u003c/strong> A district attorney — not a judge — makes the decision to send a young person to adult court. This is for serious crimes, such as robbery, assault with a firearm and murder.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Mandatory direct file.\u003c/strong> This is reserved for the most severe crimes, like rape with force. If a young person is charged with this type of crime, the case automatically goes to adult court.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Fitness hearings.\u003c/strong> A young person gets a hearing in front of a judge. A public defender — or private attorney, if hired — will represent the juvenile, and a district attorney will represent the state. The judge will make a decision as to whether the young person’s case will go to adult court or instead stay in juvenile court.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003ch2>Where Did Direct File Come From?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The current standards for direct file became a part of California law in 2000, when voters passed \u003ca href=\"http://vigarchive.sos.ca.gov/2000/primary/propositions/21text.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 21\u003c/a>, a tough-on-crime ballot initiative aimed at youth crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1990s, adult and youth crime rates surged across the country. Academics and the media hypothesized that there was a new kind of kid out there — one who could commit crimes without remorse. They called this kid a superpredator and predicted there would be a rise in superpredators and their resulting crimes in the years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That theory has since been discredited, and the surge in crime never happened. Despite that, several states still passed laws to get tough on youth crime. Proposition 21 was California’s version.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who Gets Direct Filed?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Youth between 14 and 17 can be direct filed if they commit certain crimes like murder, robbery, and assault with a firearm. The full list is in \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=WIC§ionNum=707.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California’s Welfare and Institutions Code, Section 707(b)\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the Argument for Direct File?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>District attorneys say:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Direct file is a helpful tool reserved for serious crimes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If they believe a young person can’t be rehabilitated in the amount of time they’d be sentenced to in juvenile court, or if they can’t be rehabilitated through the programs available in a certain county, that young person should go to adult court.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A fitness hearing takes months of preparation in an already bogged-down system. If DAs believe the young person will end up in adult court anyway, this is a waste of time and resources.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If a young person cannot be rehabilitated, they shouldn’t be in the community committing more crimes.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003ch2>What’s the Argument Against Direct File?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Youth advocates and public defenders say:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Prosecutors are making these decisions behind closed doors and don’t keep records. Those against direct file argue this is not due process.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The 48 hours that DAs typically have to make a decision is not enough time to understand a child — their family background, their mental health, their traumas. They say a hearing in front of a judge would let more of this information out.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Direct file is used differently across all 58 of California’s counties. \u003ca href=\"http://youthlaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/The-Prosecution-of-Youth-as-Adults.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A recent report\u003c/a> shows that in 2014, you’d be 78 times more likely to be direct filed in Kings County — in the Central Valley — than in Los Angeles. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjcj.org/uploads/cjcj/documents/do_politics_influence_the_prosecution_of_youth_as_adults.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A recent analysis\u003c/a> also shows that counties with Republican DAs use direct file at 2.4 times the rate of counties with Democratic DAs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-FsfGm\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/FsfGm/1/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" oallowfullscreen=\"oallowfullscreen\" msallowfullscreen=\"msallowfullscreen\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cli>There are racial disparities in the use of direct file. Researchers at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.burnsinstitute.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">W. Haywood Burns Institute\u003c/a> say that even after you adjust for the disproportionate number of youth of color in the judicial system, Latino and black youth who have committed felonies are twice as likely to be direct filed as their white counterparts. And the racial inequities have widened since direct file was introduced in 2000.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Recent court cases have cited that a young person’s brain is developing into their mid-20s. Direct file does not give these young people a chance to learn from their, albeit serious, mistakes.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003ch2>Why Does This Matter?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/bja/182503.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Research \u003c/a>shows that when young people go to adult prison they are more likely to be raped, commit suicide and get placed in solitary confinement. When they get out, they’re more likely to be violent and to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/220595.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">return to prison\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When these young people go to prison for years, there can be devastating effects on their family and community.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where Is Direct File on the November Ballot?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Part of \u003ca href=\"http://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2016/general/en/pdf/text-proposed-laws.pdf#prop57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 57\u003c/a> is about direct file, and if the proposition passes, direct file — both mandatory and discretionary — can no longer be used in California. This means youth cases can still go to the adult criminal justice system, but the only way they would get there is through a fitness hearing where the judge makes such a determination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Passing Proposition 57 would also change aspects of the fitness hearing:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Under current law, the presumption is that the defendant’s case will go to adult court unless the defendant can prove they are appropriate for juvenile court. If Proposition 57 passes, the presumption is that the defendant will stay in juvenile court unless the prosecutor proves that adult court is appropriate. This shifts the burden of proof from the defense to the prosecution.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Under current law, the defendant must be found appropriate for juvenile court under five criteria. If they don’t meet one of these criteria, their case will go to adult court. If Proposition 57 passes, language in the proposition says the five criteria should just be “considered.” Even if the defendant doesn’t meet some criteria, the judge will look at the totality of circumstances when deciding whether the young person could still remain in juvenile court.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He was also able to get out early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the criminal justice system there are two paths, depending on the age of the accused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The juvenile justice system is one that is designed for rehabilitation,” said Arthur Bowie, the supervising assistant public defender for Sacramento County. “Whereas the criminal justice system, its design and purpose is punishment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, Californians passed \u003ca href=\"http://vigarchive.sos.ca.gov/2000/primary/propositions/21text.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 21\u003c/a>, a tough-on-crime ballot initiative aimed at young people. The proposition passed after a heightened fear of youth crime in the 1990s, perpetuated by the notion that a growing population of “superpredators” — remorseless young killers — would cause a surge in crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative allowed a district attorney, not a judge, to decide whether to send a young person, between 14 and 17, to adult court. The practice is called \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/10/explainer-why-and-how-kids-end-up-in-adult-court/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">direct file\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”qkFUNygp1V1Iw5Glp3WnRirkJ39TQg8n”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the November election, Californians will get the opportunity to review direct file, as this year’s Proposition 57 would eliminate the practice if passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pernicious part of direct file is there is no hearing,” said Barry Krisberg, a criminologist at UC Berkeley. “There is no evidence. There is no record. Somebody in the back office of a prosecutor’s office decides to try a youth as an adult, and there’s not too much that can be done about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a case instead has a hearing in front of a judge, both sides present evidence and that hearing can be reviewed and argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, nearly 500 young people between the ages of 14 and 17 were direct filed. That’s less than 1 percent of all juvenile arrests statewide, but the decision has serious consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”jk3P7DsEnMxB0NColbGjXWM9XCsG7Oas”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krisberg said if a young person goes to the adult system, when they get out they’re more likely to return to prison, and more likely to be violent. And he said, “When you send a young person to an adult facility, they’re more likely to be raped, commit suicide, more likely to get into solitary confinement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, public defenders are looking out for their young clients, many of whom have grown up in challenging situations, while district attorneys are looking out for public safety and crime victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District attorneys like Paul Durenberger say direct file is a helpful tool reserved for serious crimes. The Sacramento prosecutor says the available rehabilitation programs aren’t good enough to actually change youth offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Used the right way, the direct file system helps public safety,” Durenberger said. “In some ways when you have a minor that’s going to end up in adult court anyway, and you’re talking about having a hearing sitting at juvenile hall not knowing what his future is for six months, eight months and sometimes even a year, I don’t see a benefit to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Latino and black youth are twice as likely to be direct filed as their white counterparts.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But youth advocates take issue with the practice. For one, district attorneys typically have 48 hours to make a call about the young person, which opponents say isn’t enough time to understand that child — their family background, their mental health, their traumas. They say a hearing in front of a judge would let more of this information out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also racial disparities. Even after adjusting for the disproportionate number of youth of color arrested for serious felonies, Latino and black youth are twice as likely to be direct filed as their white counterparts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The numbers of young people tried as adults increased dramatically” since 2000, according to Patricia Soung, an attorney with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.childrensdefense.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Children’s Defense Fund\u003c/a>. “Latino and black youth are disproportionately tried as adults, and that disparity increased over time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When talking about the issue, Barry Krisberg often returns to one question: “If it was your child, what would you want?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re much more likely to be sympathetic and to give second chances and to try treatment and rehabilitation to people who we think we understand,” he said. “But if they are defined as aliens or others, then we treat them very differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frankie Guzman felt like he was seen as the “other” when handed down his sentence in the 1990s, but he’s still grateful direct file didn’t exist at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, “Having all these opportunities to go to school, college, law school, have a career like a lawyer, is largely in part because I was able to be prosecuted as a juvenile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s right — he’s a lawyer at the \u003ca href=\"http://youthlaw.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Center for Youth Law\u003c/a>. 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He was also able to get out early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the criminal justice system there are two paths, depending on the age of the accused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The juvenile justice system is one that is designed for rehabilitation,” said Arthur Bowie, the supervising assistant public defender for Sacramento County. “Whereas the criminal justice system, its design and purpose is punishment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, Californians passed \u003ca href=\"http://vigarchive.sos.ca.gov/2000/primary/propositions/21text.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 21\u003c/a>, a tough-on-crime ballot initiative aimed at young people. 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Somebody in the back office of a prosecutor’s office decides to try a youth as an adult, and there’s not too much that can be done about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a case instead has a hearing in front of a judge, both sides present evidence and that hearing can be reviewed and argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, nearly 500 young people between the ages of 14 and 17 were direct filed. That’s less than 1 percent of all juvenile arrests statewide, but the decision has serious consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krisberg said if a young person goes to the adult system, when they get out they’re more likely to return to prison, and more likely to be violent. And he said, “When you send a young person to an adult facility, they’re more likely to be raped, commit suicide, more likely to get into solitary confinement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, public defenders are looking out for their young clients, many of whom have grown up in challenging situations, while district attorneys are looking out for public safety and crime victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District attorneys like Paul Durenberger say direct file is a helpful tool reserved for serious crimes. The Sacramento prosecutor says the available rehabilitation programs aren’t good enough to actually change youth offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Used the right way, the direct file system helps public safety,” Durenberger said. “In some ways when you have a minor that’s going to end up in adult court anyway, and you’re talking about having a hearing sitting at juvenile hall not knowing what his future is for six months, eight months and sometimes even a year, I don’t see a benefit to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Latino and black youth are twice as likely to be direct filed as their white counterparts.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But youth advocates take issue with the practice. For one, district attorneys typically have 48 hours to make a call about the young person, which opponents say isn’t enough time to understand that child — their family background, their mental health, their traumas. They say a hearing in front of a judge would let more of this information out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also racial disparities. Even after adjusting for the disproportionate number of youth of color arrested for serious felonies, Latino and black youth are twice as likely to be direct filed as their white counterparts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The numbers of young people tried as adults increased dramatically” since 2000, according to Patricia Soung, an attorney with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.childrensdefense.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Children’s Defense Fund\u003c/a>. “Latino and black youth are disproportionately tried as adults, and that disparity increased over time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When talking about the issue, Barry Krisberg often returns to one question: “If it was your child, what would you want?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re much more likely to be sympathetic and to give second chances and to try treatment and rehabilitation to people who we think we understand,” he said. “But if they are defined as aliens or others, then we treat them very differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frankie Guzman felt like he was seen as the “other” when handed down his sentence in the 1990s, but he’s still grateful direct file didn’t exist at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, “Having all these opportunities to go to school, college, law school, have a career like a lawyer, is largely in part because I was able to be prosecuted as a juvenile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s right — he’s a lawyer at the \u003ca href=\"http://youthlaw.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Center for Youth Law\u003c/a>. He says he got there because he had so many chances to make mistakes and learn from them. But with direct file, he says, you don’t get a second chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Advocates on Friday joined the family of a homeless man fatally shot by two San Francisco police officers in April at the location of Luís Góngora Pat's death to announce the filing of a federal civil rights lawsuit and to respond to details of a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/29/autopsy-for-homeless-man-killed-in-s-f-police-shooting-released/\" target=\"_blank\">medical examiner's report\u003c/a> released last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"#complaint\">lawsuit\u003c/a> alleges \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/15/sfpd-names-sergeant-officer-who-fatally-shot-homeless-man/\" target=\"_blank\">Officer Michael Mellone and Sgt. Nate Steger\u003c/a> used excessive force and ignored SFPD protocols when they -- along with a third, unidentified officer -- arrived at a Mission District street in response to a call about a man with a knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers were captured on surveillance video on April 7 approaching something outside the camera's frame as they shouted commands to \"Lay on the ground!\" and \"Put that down!\" An officer armed with a shotgun that fired \"less-lethal\" beanbag rounds appears to fire four shots in quick succession, followed by the distinct sound of handgun fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Video originally published by \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Video-shows-San-Francisco-police-shooting-7237146.php\" target=\"_blank\">SFGate\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//player.hearstdigitalstudios.com/5707e35ce694aa03cbe66121?width=100%25&autostart=0&aratio=16:9\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Góngora died nearly three hours later at San Francisco General Hospital. He suffered six gunshot wounds, including one to the left side of his forehead, which advocates and family members have identified as \"the only mortal wound.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. Góngora was not running or lunging at the officers when he was shot to death,\" civil rights attorney Adante Pointer said. \"Given the angle of the gunshot wound to his head, and you combine that with the video, it gives you a real clear indication that he was not only not standing when he took that shot, but he was below the angle of the gun. So Mr. Góngora was actually on the ground or going to it when he sustained that fatal injury, and that is clearly excessive and unnecessary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department and other city agencies typically do not comment on cases that are the subject of lawsuits. Police officials did release two batches of partial witness statements and interpretations of witness statements in the days following the shooting, some of which indicate Góngora was moving toward the officers with a knife in his hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Grant \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/07/officer-involved-shooting-in-s-f-s-mission-district/\" target=\"_blank\">said the day of the shooting\u003c/a> that she lived in a tent near Góngora's and that he never presented a threat. She reiterated her account Friday.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"v8uhojmfdo7VSNqT5RQlfc4swAjjLLgm\"]\u003cbr>\n\"He wasn't understanding what they were saying,\" she said, adding that he moved only in reaction to being struck by the beanbag rounds. \"He did nothing wrong at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>S. Smith Patrick, a filmmaker, said she was home in her apartment overlooking the street and had a \"completely unobstructed view of everything that happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the downward trajectory of some of the gunshot wounds confirms what she saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was not charging at them as had been stated,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith Patrick commended a recently announced partnership between SFPD and the city's Department of Public Health that will make a team of more than 30 mental health professionals available to respond to incidents involving police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Góngora's death came five months after the fatal police shooting of Mario Woods -- which raised scrutiny of SFPD use of force and officer-involved shooting investigations to an uproar -- and about six weeks before the fatal police shooting of Jessica Williams, which prompted former Police Chief Greg Suhr's resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also raised questions about SFPD officers' commitment to changing the way police interact with people potentially in psychiatric crisis, which can quickly turn volatile and make up a majority of fatal police shootings in San Francisco and elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been talking time and distance and de-escalation -- that’s pretty much all I’ve been talking about all of 2016,” Suhr said about a week after Góngora's death. “So there’ll be a lot of questions about tactics on why that didn’t happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Góngora's family portray him as a loving father and husband who had only recently fallen on hard times. They said he had lost his apartment just a few months before the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was my companion and they have taken him away from me,\" José Góngora Pat said in a written statement. \"My brother needed shelter, food and medical care. I did what I could within my means to help him. Instead of receiving assistance from the city, he was executed by the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite massive reforms underway in the Police Department, a divide over the city's handling of officer-involved shooting investigations appears only to be growing. 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"content": "\u003cp>The CEO of Backpage.com, a classifieds website that allows users to post escort ads, was arrested Thursday on felony pimping charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl Ferrer was arrested in Houston after he arrived on a flight from Amsterdam; dozens of law enforcement officers then searched Backpage's Dallas headquarters, the \u003ca href=\"https://texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/ag-paxton-arrest-of-backpage.com-ceo-shows-texas-doesnt-tolerate-human-traf\">Texas attorney general's office says.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferrer, 55, is charged with pimping a minor, pimping and conspiracy to commit pimping. Two controlling shareholders of Backpage — Michael Lacey and James Larkin — also are charged with conspiracy to commit pimping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacey and Larkin are former owners of the \u003cem>Village Voice\u003c/em> and the \u003cem>Phoenix New Times\u003c/em>, The Associated Press reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11119997\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11119997\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Ferrer-800x945.jpg\" alt=\"This photo released by the Texas Office of the Attorney General shows Carl Ferrer, the CEO of Backpage, a classifieds website that allows users to post escort ads. Ferrer was arrested Thursday on felony pimping charges.\" width=\"800\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Ferrer-800x945.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Ferrer-400x473.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Ferrer.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Ferrer-1180x1394.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Ferrer-960x1135.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo released by the Texas Office of the Attorney General shows Carl Ferrer, the CEO of Backpage, a classifieds website that allows users to post escort ads. Ferrer was arrested Thursday on felony pimping charges. \u003ccite>(Texas Office of the Attorney General)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Backpage was started by Village Voice Media and is now owned by a Dutch company. The site allows users to post a variety of classified ads, but has come under scrutiny for its \"adult entertainment\" section, which includes escort ads. Backpage has continued to host those ads after other sites — including, most notably, Craigslist — shut down their adult sections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-announces-criminal-charges-against-senior\">spent three years\u003c/a> investigating Backpage, including with undercover agents posting ads, to confirm that the escorts ads were for the sole purpose of buying and selling sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's attorney general, Kamala Harris, says that Backpage was \"purposefully and unlawfully designed\" as an online brothel. Her office alleges that the \"vast majority\" of Backpage's profits come from fees paid by users posting ads in the \"adult\" section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation was prompted, in part, by reports from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children of thousands of instances of child sex trafficking through Backpage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No trafficking charges were announced against Ferrer, Lacey or Larkin on Thursday, but the attorney general's office says the investigation \"found that many of the ads for prostitution services involved victims of sex trafficking, including children under the age of 18.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris, who is currently running for U.S. Senate, called profiting off trafficking and exploitation \"outrageous, despicable and illegal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP has more on the charges:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"One of the advertisers, identified only as 15-year-old 'E.S.,' 'was forced into prostitution at the age of 13 by her pimp,' according to an affidavit filed with the complaint. She used other online advertising services until they were shut down, the court filing says, when she turned to Backpage.com.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\" 'I mean really, coming from someone my age, there is too much access, like it's too easy for people to get on it and post an ad,' she told California Special Agent Brian Fichtner, according to his affidavit. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The criminal complaint includes allegations that five minors, three of them including \"E.S.\" under age 16, paid to post advertisements on Backpage.com.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The charges against Ferrer could bring him nearly 22 years in prison, while Larkin and Lacey face a maximum six years.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Separately, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-investigation-results-17-sex-trafficking-indictments-minnesota#wcm-survey-target-id\">announced this week\u003c/a> that 17 people have been charged with running an international sex trafficking ring that imported women from Thailand and forced them into the sex trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment alleges that the traffickers advertised the women on websites, including Backpage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Tuesday, Nov. 8:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/08/brown-early-parole-measure-passes-newsom-gun-control-initiative-leading/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proposition 57 passed\u003c/a> with strong support from voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post Friday, Oct. 7:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center\">The Trials of Marvin Mutch\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://trialsofmarvinmutch.org\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/1b.-Marvin-outside-CMF_CloseUp.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marvin Mutch went to prison at 19 for a murder he swears he didn't commit. He spent four decades striving to prove his innocence and win his freedom. But it would take a major shift in California's criminal justice system for Mutch to be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>'\u003ca href=\"http://trialsofmarvinmutch.org\">The Trials of Marvin Mutch\u003c/a>' investigates Mutch's conviction and chronicles his and the California Justice System's evolution over a lifetime in prison.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 42 in 1976, he said it would provide \"certain, clear punishment for crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure passed the Legislature with little controversy. It created a \u003ca href=\"http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2883&context=facpubs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">determinate sentencing structure in California\u003c/a>, scrapping most open-ended prison terms and instead giving inmates a set release date. It was the first major shift toward a more prescribed approach to punishment in California, one that lawmakers and voters embraced wholeheartedly in the decades that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, 40 years later, Brown believes that signing the law was a mistake -- and he's asking voters to approve a measure that would move California back toward the system it abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2016/general/en/pdf/text-proposed-laws.pdf#prop57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proposition 57\u003c/a> could allow many inmates to serve shorter prison terms than the ones handed down in court when they were sentenced -- if the state parole board judges them suitable for release. The governor believes the change will make prisons and the public safer by giving inmates an incentive to improve themselves while they are incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286577767\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think if anything, this is the greatest step we could take for public safety in California,\" he said, noting that nearly all inmates are eventually released from prison. \"We want to make sure when they get out, they've gone through a real program of education and rehabilitation and to make that happen, you can't force them, but you can incentivize them by the possibility of earlier parole.\"\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nProsecutors disagree and are campaigning vociferously against Proposition 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It's dangerous for California.' \u003ccite>Sacramento DA Anne Marie Schubert\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Our hands will be tied,\" said Ventura County District Attorney Greg Totten. \"What a judge imposes will no longer be significant -- and state bureaucrats, who are not subject to elections, who are not accountable to the public, will be making decisions about who does and who does not get released.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's dangerous for California,\" added Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 42 and a 'Hog Wild' Legislature\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Brown signed the determinate sentencing law, criminal offenders were sentenced to broad, unspecified prison terms. A panel appointed by the governor, then called the Adult Authority, had immense discretion to decide how long an inmate should stayed locked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system in place was supposed to allow the release of inmates when they were deemed rehabilitated and ready to re-enter society. But critics -- mostly civil liberties groups -- thought the policy gave too much power to the law enforcement-dominated Adult Authority and resulted in disproportionately long sentences for people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he listened to those critics when he decided to sign SB 42. As he signed the bill in 1976, he told reporters that \"the concept of rehabilitation is seriously changed in our law by allowing the concept of a determinate sentence for a crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeY-9y3IkVM&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He misjudged the law's impacts, Brown said recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought it would give certainty, it would be more focused, people would know what their punishment is, and that would act as a great deterrent,\" he said. \"Of course, I didn't really think about the fact that when you tell somebody they get out at this date, between then and the time they arrive in prison they have no incentive to take classes, to avoid the gangs, to really scrupulously follow the rules.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown has spent much of his third and fourth terms as governor working to fix California's troubled prison system, which has \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Judges-tell-state-to-free-thousands-of-inmates-3251503.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">been under federal court oversight for a decade\u003c/a> because conditions inside were ruled to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/us/24scotus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">so crowded and chaotic they violated the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment\u003c/a>. Brown believes Proposition 57 may be the final major policy change needed to get the state out from under court control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown doesn't blame SB 42 alone for the prison overcrowding. Brown also lays responsibility at the feet of lawmakers and voters, who approved dozens of \"tough on crime\" sentencing laws in the years that followed. Chief among those laws are \"criminal enhancements\" -- additional time tacked on to prison sentences because of an offender's criminal history or the nature of their crime. For example, a five-year sentence could grow to 20 years if the offender is a member of a gang or had a gun in their possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"First the Legislature goes hog wild -- I'd say criminal legislation on steroids for 30 years,\" the governor said. \"And then at the end of that the Supreme Court says prison conditions are terrible, it's overcrowded, people are committing suicide, they have unconstitutional medical care, you've got to take out thousands and thousands of people from prison,\" he said. \"We want to do that in a rational way, and that's what Proposition 57 attempts to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118978\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11118978\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert fears dangerous criminals will be released under Proposition 57. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert fears dangerous criminals will be released under Proposition 57.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proposition 57 wouldn't do away with sentence enhancements, but it would let the state's parole board decide to release an inmate before he or she serves the time tacked on by enhancements -- if an offender is deemed ready to leave prison. That provision would apply only to inmates serving crimes considered nonviolent under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown estimates it would apply to around 1,100 inmates a year; prosecutors say the number is closer to 16,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor notes that inmates are already being released under this process -- in 2014, a federal court ordered the state to start releasing some prisoners after they served their primary sentence, excluding enhancements. The ballot measure would expand that pool of prisoners to anyone convicted of a \"nonviolent\" crime under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's one of the major problems with Proposition 57, said Schubert, the Sacramento County district attorney. She said the definition of violent crimes in the measure, which includes murder, rape, robbery and kidnapping \u003ca href=\"http://www.stop57.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">but not offenses like assault with a deadly weapon, sexual battery or hostage-taking\u003c/a>, is too narrow and that potentially dangerous felons could qualify for release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118815\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11118815\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-800x1079.jpg\" alt=\"Proposition 57 opponents made these playing cards of inmates they say could be released if the ballot measure passes. Below, you can hear Governor Brown's response in a voicemail he left for Fresno Sheriff Margaret Mims \" width=\"800\" height=\"1079\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-800x1079.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-400x539.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x1591.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-960x1295.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proposition 57 opponents made these playing cards of inmates they say could be released if the ballot measure passes. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"When I go out to the community and I say, 'How many people in this room think domestic violence is a violent crime?' They all raise their hands. 'How many people think assault with a deadly weapon is a violent crime?' They all raise their hands,\" she said. \"Those are all nonviolent under the penal code.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown calls those claims a \"complete red herring,\" noting that some of the state's most notorious inmates -- including Charles Manson -- were convicted before the determinate-sentencing law and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/11/justice/california-charles-manson/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">could be paroled today\u003c/a>. He said the list of violent crimes was created by a ballot measure supported by the District Attorneys Association and that prosecutors have wide discretion when they file charges against defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286449972\" params=\"auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most important, Brown argued, the parole board will take into account the facts of each case and the offender's behavior while in prison when weighing whether to release them -- which is why Manson remains behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parole commissioners making these judgments now will have a better sense of what serves public safety than a court did years or decades ago, he argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm just saying that what they decide on the day of sentencing, that is not all perfect. It's not omniscient, and over time -- five, eight, 10, 15, 20 years -- why not have a group of wise people saying, 'You know what? I think this inmate's ready for release'?\" he said. \"I want the parole board to look into the eyes of that parolee, listen where it's appropriate to the victims or the district attorney, and make an informed judgment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Schubert is worried the parole board won't have a chance to look in the eyes of an inmate or hear from victims and prosecutors directly. She said many of the inmates approved for early release in recent years because of the federal court order never saw a parole commissioner -- their files were reviewed by deputy commissioners, who made a decision without ever talking to the inmate, prosecutors or victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's nothing in the governor's initiative that says it's a parole board\" reviewing the cases, Schubert said. \"What we already know from the governor's early releases is that it's not a hearing, it's a letter. We get to write a letter. That's it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he understands that concern and will work to address it if Proposition 57 passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's something to be decided and maybe we'll take the more serious inmates and maybe put them through live parole,\" he said. \"I understand if it's just administrative, on paper, that's different than, as I said, looking into their eyes. ... I'll try to get the best, safest, most humanly effective process as possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Cleansing the Augean Stables'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second provision of Proposition 57 could have even wider-ranging implications. It would allow the state prisons department to revamp the system for awarding \"good time credits\" to inmates who participate in programs such as drug rehabilitation or schooling. Currently, there's a \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/partners/documents/Credits_Memo.pdf\">patchwork of laws and regulations\u003c/a> governing the credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I challenge you to find in California someone that can explain perfectly the credit system. I don't think they exist,\" Brown said. \"You can get credit 15 percent of the time a third of the time, 20 percent of the time, half the time, day for day -- but it keeps changing. You can get this much credit for this crime, but then in 1990 it was this, in 1995 it was that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor said Proposition 57 would \"cleanse the \u003ca href=\"http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/stables.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Augean stables\u003c/a>\" and allow the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop a new system through a public regulatory process that would include prosecutors, defense attorneys, law enforcement and any other member of the public who wants to weigh in.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The hardest days for me in here are this: When a guy that has committed a murder and he goes home, doing less time than me. ... I've never physically put my hands on anybody. I've caused harm. I've hurt people. Not 50 years' worth.' \u003ccite>San Quentin Prison inmate Curtis Roberts\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Curtis Roberts is one of the inmates barred from earning credits -- even though he's participated in programs during his entire 22 years in state prison. He's the type of prisoner supporters of Proposition 57 cite when arguing that California's criminal justice system has become too rigid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's serving a 50-year-to-life sentence for stealing $40 out of a cash register and burglarizing his in-laws' vacation cabin. In an interview at San Quentin Prison, Roberts said he was addicted to cocaine at the time and committed the crimes to feed his drug habit. He pleaded guilty, he said, to avoid dragging his now ex-wife through a trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Roberts was sentenced in 1995, less than a year after California voters approved the state's \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/20142.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Three Strikes Law\u003c/a>, which required a 25-year-to-life sentence for anyone convicted of a third felony. Roberts had previous robbery convictions and received two 25-to-life sentences for his 1995 convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's not eligible for parole until 2044. He'd be 82 years old by then and says the sentence sometimes overwhelms him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118984\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11118984\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Crystal fears her abuser could be released from prison early under Proposition 57. Here, she looks at photos of her injuries from abuse.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crystal fears her abuser could be released from prison early under Proposition 57. Here, she looks at photos of her injuries from abuse. \u003ccite>(KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"That's why I wanted to commit suicide. It's 50 years,\" he said. \"The hardest days for me in here are this: When a guy that has committed a murder and he goes home, doing less time than me. I internalize that and it's very, very difficult for me. I've never shot a gun. I've never physically put my hands on anybody. I've caused harm. I've hurt people. Not 50 years' worth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters passed Three Strikes in the aftermath of 12-year-old Polly Klaas' kidnapping and murder in Sonoma County. The law aimed to guarantee long sentences for repeat criminals like her killer, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Allen_Davis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richard Allen Davis\u003c/a>, who had been in and out of prison all his life. But the law has also snared many lesser offenders, including drug addicts like Roberts. He's not eligible for a revision to Three Strikes approved by voters in 2012 because his felonies are considered serious and violent even though no one was physically harmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They sentenced me as if I was Richard Allen Davis and that I killed Polly Klaas,\" Roberts said. \"That was the sentence they gave me. But that is not true. I am not Richard Allen Davis. I did not kill Polly Klaas. I didn't molest nobody. The purpose from this point on is punishment for Curtis. Punishment,\" Roberts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 57 opponents, however, worry that inmates won't be truly rehabilitated because the prisons department won't have the necessary resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need meaningful rehabilitation,\" said Schubert. \"I am all for someone earning their way out prison, I am all for them having hope they can get out of prison ... (but) you have to have true rehabilitation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he plans to put more money into prison programs. And Amador County's chief probation officer, Mark Bonini, says even with the incentive of early release, some inmates won't choose to participate. Bonini heads the Chief Probation Officers of California, which has endorsed Proposition 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just because it's there doesn't mean offenders will take advantage,\" Bonini said. \"You could still have somebody, if Prop. 57 passes, do same amount of time,\" he said. \"It's just a matter of trying to incentivize them to take advantage of programs, because ultimately if they do and you have it set up and it's funded, you will have a better product on the back side when they (are released).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonini said his group endorsed the measure because probation chiefs believe it will be easier for offenders to \"seamlessly\" re-enter society if they already are getting help in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One Victim's Mixed Feelings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victims of violent crimes and those with loved ones in prison have mixed feelings about changing the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crystal, who didn't want her last name used for this story, is one of those people. She is a domestic violence survivor who said she was dumbstruck when Schubert's office told her they believe her abuser could be released before his full 25-year sentence under Proposition 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That man, James Coker, was convicted of a harrowing series of assaults on Crystal and other women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118971\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 665px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11118971\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21369_Coker-Booking-Photo-qut.jpg\" alt=\"James Coker is serving a 25 year sentence for abusing his former girlfriend, but prosecutors fear he could be released under Proposition 57.\" width=\"665\" height=\"836\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21369_Coker-Booking-Photo-qut.jpg 665w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21369_Coker-Booking-Photo-qut-400x503.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Coker is serving a 25-year sentence for abusing his former girlfriend, but prosecutors fear he could be released under Proposition 57. \u003ccite>(CDCR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"He's hit me with baseball bats, burned my face with lighters and torches, put cigarettes out in my mouth. I just can't even recall some of the stuff he's done. He's broken one of the mason glass jar things over my head where the bottom of it was sticking out of my head,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Crystal also has a brother in prison who could benefit from Proposition 57. She says she knows many people -- including Coker -- who would have been better served by more effective rehabilitation programs behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'At 82 years old, what am I going to get out to, or for? I believe better of society. I believe better of you. You wouldn't let this happen. I believe better.' \u003ccite>San Quentin inmate Curtis Roberts\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At San Quentin, Roberts dreams of getting out and reconnecting with his daughter, who was 5 when he went to prison. He said he has to balance his hope with the reality of his sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have worked very, very hard on myself to correct some of the past behaviors, my drug use. I haven't used for 22 years,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand in my mind, 50 years. I'm 54 years old, so that means I'll be 82, so that means really I'll never get out. At 82 years old, what am I going to get out to, or for? I believe better of society. I believe better of you. You wouldn't let this happen. I believe better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of our California Counts collaboration with four California public media organizations to cover the 2016 election. The partners include \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\">KPCC in Los Angeles\u003c/a>,\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/\">KQED in San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/\">Capital Public Radio in Sacramento\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>and\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\">KPBS in San Diego\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Tuesday, Nov. 8:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/08/brown-early-parole-measure-passes-newsom-gun-control-initiative-leading/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proposition 57 passed\u003c/a> with strong support from voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post Friday, Oct. 7:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center\">The Trials of Marvin Mutch\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://trialsofmarvinmutch.org\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/1b.-Marvin-outside-CMF_CloseUp.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marvin Mutch went to prison at 19 for a murder he swears he didn't commit. He spent four decades striving to prove his innocence and win his freedom. But it would take a major shift in California's criminal justice system for Mutch to be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>'\u003ca href=\"http://trialsofmarvinmutch.org\">The Trials of Marvin Mutch\u003c/a>' investigates Mutch's conviction and chronicles his and the California Justice System's evolution over a lifetime in prison.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 42 in 1976, he said it would provide \"certain, clear punishment for crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure passed the Legislature with little controversy. It created a \u003ca href=\"http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2883&context=facpubs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">determinate sentencing structure in California\u003c/a>, scrapping most open-ended prison terms and instead giving inmates a set release date. It was the first major shift toward a more prescribed approach to punishment in California, one that lawmakers and voters embraced wholeheartedly in the decades that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, 40 years later, Brown believes that signing the law was a mistake -- and he's asking voters to approve a measure that would move California back toward the system it abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2016/general/en/pdf/text-proposed-laws.pdf#prop57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proposition 57\u003c/a> could allow many inmates to serve shorter prison terms than the ones handed down in court when they were sentenced -- if the state parole board judges them suitable for release. The governor believes the change will make prisons and the public safer by giving inmates an incentive to improve themselves while they are incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286577767&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286577767'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think if anything, this is the greatest step we could take for public safety in California,\" he said, noting that nearly all inmates are eventually released from prison. \"We want to make sure when they get out, they've gone through a real program of education and rehabilitation and to make that happen, you can't force them, but you can incentivize them by the possibility of earlier parole.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nProsecutors disagree and are campaigning vociferously against Proposition 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It's dangerous for California.' \u003ccite>Sacramento DA Anne Marie Schubert\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Our hands will be tied,\" said Ventura County District Attorney Greg Totten. \"What a judge imposes will no longer be significant -- and state bureaucrats, who are not subject to elections, who are not accountable to the public, will be making decisions about who does and who does not get released.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's dangerous for California,\" added Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 42 and a 'Hog Wild' Legislature\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Brown signed the determinate sentencing law, criminal offenders were sentenced to broad, unspecified prison terms. A panel appointed by the governor, then called the Adult Authority, had immense discretion to decide how long an inmate should stayed locked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system in place was supposed to allow the release of inmates when they were deemed rehabilitated and ready to re-enter society. But critics -- mostly civil liberties groups -- thought the policy gave too much power to the law enforcement-dominated Adult Authority and resulted in disproportionately long sentences for people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he listened to those critics when he decided to sign SB 42. As he signed the bill in 1976, he told reporters that \"the concept of rehabilitation is seriously changed in our law by allowing the concept of a determinate sentence for a crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/MeY-9y3IkVM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/MeY-9y3IkVM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He misjudged the law's impacts, Brown said recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought it would give certainty, it would be more focused, people would know what their punishment is, and that would act as a great deterrent,\" he said. \"Of course, I didn't really think about the fact that when you tell somebody they get out at this date, between then and the time they arrive in prison they have no incentive to take classes, to avoid the gangs, to really scrupulously follow the rules.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown has spent much of his third and fourth terms as governor working to fix California's troubled prison system, which has \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Judges-tell-state-to-free-thousands-of-inmates-3251503.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">been under federal court oversight for a decade\u003c/a> because conditions inside were ruled to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/us/24scotus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">so crowded and chaotic they violated the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment\u003c/a>. Brown believes Proposition 57 may be the final major policy change needed to get the state out from under court control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown doesn't blame SB 42 alone for the prison overcrowding. Brown also lays responsibility at the feet of lawmakers and voters, who approved dozens of \"tough on crime\" sentencing laws in the years that followed. Chief among those laws are \"criminal enhancements\" -- additional time tacked on to prison sentences because of an offender's criminal history or the nature of their crime. For example, a five-year sentence could grow to 20 years if the offender is a member of a gang or had a gun in their possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"First the Legislature goes hog wild -- I'd say criminal legislation on steroids for 30 years,\" the governor said. \"And then at the end of that the Supreme Court says prison conditions are terrible, it's overcrowded, people are committing suicide, they have unconstitutional medical care, you've got to take out thousands and thousands of people from prison,\" he said. \"We want to do that in a rational way, and that's what Proposition 57 attempts to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118978\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11118978\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert fears dangerous criminals will be released under Proposition 57. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert fears dangerous criminals will be released under Proposition 57.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proposition 57 wouldn't do away with sentence enhancements, but it would let the state's parole board decide to release an inmate before he or she serves the time tacked on by enhancements -- if an offender is deemed ready to leave prison. That provision would apply only to inmates serving crimes considered nonviolent under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown estimates it would apply to around 1,100 inmates a year; prosecutors say the number is closer to 16,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor notes that inmates are already being released under this process -- in 2014, a federal court ordered the state to start releasing some prisoners after they served their primary sentence, excluding enhancements. The ballot measure would expand that pool of prisoners to anyone convicted of a \"nonviolent\" crime under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's one of the major problems with Proposition 57, said Schubert, the Sacramento County district attorney. She said the definition of violent crimes in the measure, which includes murder, rape, robbery and kidnapping \u003ca href=\"http://www.stop57.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">but not offenses like assault with a deadly weapon, sexual battery or hostage-taking\u003c/a>, is too narrow and that potentially dangerous felons could qualify for release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118815\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11118815\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-800x1079.jpg\" alt=\"Proposition 57 opponents made these playing cards of inmates they say could be released if the ballot measure passes. Below, you can hear Governor Brown's response in a voicemail he left for Fresno Sheriff Margaret Mims \" width=\"800\" height=\"1079\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-800x1079.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-400x539.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x1591.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-960x1295.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proposition 57 opponents made these playing cards of inmates they say could be released if the ballot measure passes. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"When I go out to the community and I say, 'How many people in this room think domestic violence is a violent crime?' They all raise their hands. 'How many people think assault with a deadly weapon is a violent crime?' They all raise their hands,\" she said. \"Those are all nonviolent under the penal code.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown calls those claims a \"complete red herring,\" noting that some of the state's most notorious inmates -- including Charles Manson -- were convicted before the determinate-sentencing law and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/11/justice/california-charles-manson/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">could be paroled today\u003c/a>. He said the list of violent crimes was created by a ballot measure supported by the District Attorneys Association and that prosecutors have wide discretion when they file charges against defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='450'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286449972&visual=true&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286449972'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most important, Brown argued, the parole board will take into account the facts of each case and the offender's behavior while in prison when weighing whether to release them -- which is why Manson remains behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parole commissioners making these judgments now will have a better sense of what serves public safety than a court did years or decades ago, he argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm just saying that what they decide on the day of sentencing, that is not all perfect. It's not omniscient, and over time -- five, eight, 10, 15, 20 years -- why not have a group of wise people saying, 'You know what? I think this inmate's ready for release'?\" he said. \"I want the parole board to look into the eyes of that parolee, listen where it's appropriate to the victims or the district attorney, and make an informed judgment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Schubert is worried the parole board won't have a chance to look in the eyes of an inmate or hear from victims and prosecutors directly. She said many of the inmates approved for early release in recent years because of the federal court order never saw a parole commissioner -- their files were reviewed by deputy commissioners, who made a decision without ever talking to the inmate, prosecutors or victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's nothing in the governor's initiative that says it's a parole board\" reviewing the cases, Schubert said. \"What we already know from the governor's early releases is that it's not a hearing, it's a letter. We get to write a letter. That's it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he understands that concern and will work to address it if Proposition 57 passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's something to be decided and maybe we'll take the more serious inmates and maybe put them through live parole,\" he said. \"I understand if it's just administrative, on paper, that's different than, as I said, looking into their eyes. ... I'll try to get the best, safest, most humanly effective process as possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Cleansing the Augean Stables'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second provision of Proposition 57 could have even wider-ranging implications. It would allow the state prisons department to revamp the system for awarding \"good time credits\" to inmates who participate in programs such as drug rehabilitation or schooling. Currently, there's a \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/partners/documents/Credits_Memo.pdf\">patchwork of laws and regulations\u003c/a> governing the credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I challenge you to find in California someone that can explain perfectly the credit system. I don't think they exist,\" Brown said. \"You can get credit 15 percent of the time a third of the time, 20 percent of the time, half the time, day for day -- but it keeps changing. You can get this much credit for this crime, but then in 1990 it was this, in 1995 it was that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor said Proposition 57 would \"cleanse the \u003ca href=\"http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/stables.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Augean stables\u003c/a>\" and allow the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop a new system through a public regulatory process that would include prosecutors, defense attorneys, law enforcement and any other member of the public who wants to weigh in.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The hardest days for me in here are this: When a guy that has committed a murder and he goes home, doing less time than me. ... I've never physically put my hands on anybody. I've caused harm. I've hurt people. Not 50 years' worth.' \u003ccite>San Quentin Prison inmate Curtis Roberts\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Curtis Roberts is one of the inmates barred from earning credits -- even though he's participated in programs during his entire 22 years in state prison. He's the type of prisoner supporters of Proposition 57 cite when arguing that California's criminal justice system has become too rigid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's serving a 50-year-to-life sentence for stealing $40 out of a cash register and burglarizing his in-laws' vacation cabin. In an interview at San Quentin Prison, Roberts said he was addicted to cocaine at the time and committed the crimes to feed his drug habit. He pleaded guilty, he said, to avoid dragging his now ex-wife through a trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Roberts was sentenced in 1995, less than a year after California voters approved the state's \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/20142.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Three Strikes Law\u003c/a>, which required a 25-year-to-life sentence for anyone convicted of a third felony. Roberts had previous robbery convictions and received two 25-to-life sentences for his 1995 convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's not eligible for parole until 2044. He'd be 82 years old by then and says the sentence sometimes overwhelms him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118984\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11118984\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Crystal fears her abuser could be released from prison early under Proposition 57. Here, she looks at photos of her injuries from abuse.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crystal fears her abuser could be released from prison early under Proposition 57. Here, she looks at photos of her injuries from abuse. \u003ccite>(KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"That's why I wanted to commit suicide. It's 50 years,\" he said. \"The hardest days for me in here are this: When a guy that has committed a murder and he goes home, doing less time than me. I internalize that and it's very, very difficult for me. I've never shot a gun. I've never physically put my hands on anybody. I've caused harm. I've hurt people. Not 50 years' worth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters passed Three Strikes in the aftermath of 12-year-old Polly Klaas' kidnapping and murder in Sonoma County. The law aimed to guarantee long sentences for repeat criminals like her killer, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Allen_Davis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richard Allen Davis\u003c/a>, who had been in and out of prison all his life. But the law has also snared many lesser offenders, including drug addicts like Roberts. He's not eligible for a revision to Three Strikes approved by voters in 2012 because his felonies are considered serious and violent even though no one was physically harmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They sentenced me as if I was Richard Allen Davis and that I killed Polly Klaas,\" Roberts said. \"That was the sentence they gave me. But that is not true. I am not Richard Allen Davis. I did not kill Polly Klaas. I didn't molest nobody. The purpose from this point on is punishment for Curtis. Punishment,\" Roberts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 57 opponents, however, worry that inmates won't be truly rehabilitated because the prisons department won't have the necessary resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need meaningful rehabilitation,\" said Schubert. \"I am all for someone earning their way out prison, I am all for them having hope they can get out of prison ... (but) you have to have true rehabilitation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he plans to put more money into prison programs. And Amador County's chief probation officer, Mark Bonini, says even with the incentive of early release, some inmates won't choose to participate. Bonini heads the Chief Probation Officers of California, which has endorsed Proposition 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just because it's there doesn't mean offenders will take advantage,\" Bonini said. \"You could still have somebody, if Prop. 57 passes, do same amount of time,\" he said. \"It's just a matter of trying to incentivize them to take advantage of programs, because ultimately if they do and you have it set up and it's funded, you will have a better product on the back side when they (are released).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonini said his group endorsed the measure because probation chiefs believe it will be easier for offenders to \"seamlessly\" re-enter society if they already are getting help in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One Victim's Mixed Feelings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victims of violent crimes and those with loved ones in prison have mixed feelings about changing the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crystal, who didn't want her last name used for this story, is one of those people. She is a domestic violence survivor who said she was dumbstruck when Schubert's office told her they believe her abuser could be released before his full 25-year sentence under Proposition 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That man, James Coker, was convicted of a harrowing series of assaults on Crystal and other women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118971\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 665px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11118971\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21369_Coker-Booking-Photo-qut.jpg\" alt=\"James Coker is serving a 25 year sentence for abusing his former girlfriend, but prosecutors fear he could be released under Proposition 57.\" width=\"665\" height=\"836\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21369_Coker-Booking-Photo-qut.jpg 665w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21369_Coker-Booking-Photo-qut-400x503.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Coker is serving a 25-year sentence for abusing his former girlfriend, but prosecutors fear he could be released under Proposition 57. \u003ccite>(CDCR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"He's hit me with baseball bats, burned my face with lighters and torches, put cigarettes out in my mouth. I just can't even recall some of the stuff he's done. He's broken one of the mason glass jar things over my head where the bottom of it was sticking out of my head,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Crystal also has a brother in prison who could benefit from Proposition 57. She says she knows many people -- including Coker -- who would have been better served by more effective rehabilitation programs behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'At 82 years old, what am I going to get out to, or for? I believe better of society. I believe better of you. You wouldn't let this happen. I believe better.' \u003ccite>San Quentin inmate Curtis Roberts\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At San Quentin, Roberts dreams of getting out and reconnecting with his daughter, who was 5 when he went to prison. He said he has to balance his hope with the reality of his sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have worked very, very hard on myself to correct some of the past behaviors, my drug use. I haven't used for 22 years,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand in my mind, 50 years. I'm 54 years old, so that means I'll be 82, so that means really I'll never get out. At 82 years old, what am I going to get out to, or for? I believe better of society. I believe better of you. You wouldn't let this happen. I believe better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of our California Counts collaboration with four California public media organizations to cover the 2016 election. The partners include \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\">KPCC in Los Angeles\u003c/a>,\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/\">KQED in San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/\">Capital Public Radio in Sacramento\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>and\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\">KPBS in San Diego\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Three former San Francisco public officials accused of taking bribes in a case stemming from the federal prosecution of a convicted \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/shrimp-boy/\" target=\"_blank\">Chinatown gang leader\u003c/a> pleaded not guilty to all charges today after months of wrangling between prosecutors and defense attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith Jackson, a former school board president turned political consultant, former Human Rights Commissioner Nazly Mohajer and former commission staff member Zula Mae Jones are accused of soliciting and accepting $20,000 in bribes from an undercover FBI agent in exchange for preferential treatment on city contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three were \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/22/3-former-fundraisers-for-mayor-ed-lee-indicted-on-bribery-money-laundering-charges/\" target=\"_blank\">charged in January\u003c/a> but held off on entering a plea until now while defense attorneys fought efforts by the prosecution to keep details of the case under seal, a move that attorneys said hampered their ability to defend their clients.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"HstxaReXpRqZH4teFi3iNNwGDnM3u9Xl\"]\u003cbr>\nProsecutors successfully argued that unsealing the complaint and affidavit in the case, which stems from a previous federal investigation, could jeopardize undercover agents, witnesses and innocent parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of dueling legal motions, defense attorneys agreed Thursday to move forward with the case after prosecutors said they would file the arrest affidavit in a public but heavily redacted form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions remain high in the case. Defense attorney John Keker, who is representing Jones, called the redactions \"stupid\" and \"transparent,\" alleging that they appeared to be primarily redacting the names of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/04/shrimp-boy-defense-ed-lee-other-officials-implicated-in-fbi-probe/\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Ed Lee\u003c/a>, former Mayor Willie Brown and other public officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has requested charging documents from the court, prosecutors and defense attorneys in the case; no party has yet provided a copy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keker also accused Assistant District Attorney Kelly Burke of \"sitting on\" potentially exculpatory information from the defense -- which under a \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-prosecutor-misconduct-20161003-snap-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">new state law\u003c/a> could be a felony offense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside court, Keker said prosecutors are only allowing defense to see material if they sign agreements that hamper their ability to investigate the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keker said he planned to continue to fight for the release of more material, promising \"we're going to have World War III\" over the issue. He also said he would consider going to the state attorney general or filing a civil rights lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burke called the allegations \"outrageous\" and said that any evidence in the case is available to the defense \"subject to the protective order.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Public Defender Niki Solis, who is representing Jackson, said while she did not like the redactions, she wanted to move forward with the case, which involves charges dating back to 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson is already serving a nine-year prison term in connection with a previous federal investigation that resulted in the prosecution of Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow, former state Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>Former employees of Wells Fargo tell NPR that a toxic high-pressure sales culture at the bank drove some workers to deceive customers and open unauthorized accounts — even in the bank's own headquarters building in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo is embroiled in a scandal for taking advantage of customers by opening as many as 2 million accounts without their consent. The bank fired 5,300 mostly lower-level workers over the wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wells Fargo says those workers represent a tiny fraction of employees. The bank basically says they were bad apples who have been fired and who are not representative of the broader culture and practices at the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/496508361/496508362\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a rare look inside the bank, former workers tell NPR that wrongdoing was widespread, even at the bank branch in the very building where the CEO and senior management team worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo's embattled CEO, John Stumpf, has been spending long hours defending himself in congressional hearings trying to explain the scandal engulfing his bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Wrongful sales practice behavior,\" Stumpf told the Senate banking committee, \"goes against everything regarding our core principles, our ethics and our culture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stumpf says the bank never directed nor wanted employees to provide products and services to customers that they did not want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11115950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11115950 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf testifies about the unauthorized opening of accounts by Wells Fargo during a Senate hearing on September 20, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-960x674.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf testifies about the unauthorized opening of accounts by Wells Fargo during a Senate hearing on Sept. 20, 2016. \u003ccite>(SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But former Wells Fargo employees have been watching that testimony — and the ones we spoke to say, in no uncertain terms, they aren't buying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Bulls***,\" says one former employee who we'll call Worker #1. She doesn't want to use her name for fear that talking to NPR will prevent her from getting a job at another bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says Stumpf is not describing the Wells Fargo she worked at for five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's the whole foundation of Wells Fargo is cross-sell, cross-sell, cross sell,\" she says, referring to the bank's sales approach of offering customers with, for example, a checking account many other types of products, too — credit cards, home loans, lines of credit, etc. Of course, there's nothing wrong with that in principle. But Worker #1 says that in practice Wells Fargo pushed it beyond reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody needs a ridiculous amount of products,\" she says. And the sales culture was so intense she says that some workers even in the headquarters and other San Francisco branches resorted to deceptive practices to make their sales goals. \"That completely contradicts what he's saying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"zyRzkgDgRLS2aSRqhctLYYnVWVBHRgRv\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This employee is upset about what the bank did and how she was treated. But it didn't start out that way. Standing on the street last week looking up at the corporate headquarters building, she remembers back in 2007, showing up for her first day of work at the branch here. She says she was excited and a little overdressed. She was wearing stiletto heels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I probably had about a pound of hairspray in my hair,\" she says. \"I felt proud, and my parents were proud of me for getting a job at headquarters. I was very hopeful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worker #1 hadn't even finished college yet, so this seemed like a big break. But right away, she said, working as a \"personal banker\" in the branch here was not what she expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the number of products she was expected to sell — checking and savings accounts, credit cards — seemed really high: at least eight products a day. Sometimes it was even more. During a sales push called \"Jump into January\" former employees say they were expected to sell 20 products a day. That just seemed impossible to Worker #1, and she says the pressure on her and her co-workers to sell was disturbingly intense. \"We were all miserable, and it was just soul-crushing to walk in every day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik, who also worked at the headquarters branch and wants to use only his first name, describes the sales pressure this way: \"It was every day, man. It was literally every day. It was a grind-house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11116005\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11116005 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Crocker branch of Wells Fargo on 1 Montgomery Street in San Francisco, where former employees say the sales pressure was also intense and the deceptive practices widespread.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Crocker branch of Wells Fargo at 1 Montgomery St. in San Francisco, where former employees say the sales pressure was also intense and the deceptive practices widespread. \u003ccite>(Ariel Zambelich/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Erik says mornings started with a huddle, where managers pressed workers to meet their \"solutions goals.\" Each credit card or home equity loan or other product was called a solution. And all day long workers were told to sell solutions, sell solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was multiple occasions where I saw my co-workers were cracking under the pressure,\" Erik says. \"Tears, crying, constantly getting pulled into the backroom having one-on-ones for coaching sessions.\" Erik says. \"You know, there was a lot of coaching happening,\" and he winks. Why the wink? Erik is a big strong-looking guy. He played sports all through college. He says this wasn't really \"coaching.\" Managers called it that, but it was just leaning on employees to sell more solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik says if you didn't meet your sales goals, that's when employees would have to have these so-called coaching sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'You were stuck and it was the feeling that no other employer is going to want you because we will ruin you.'\u003ccite>Wells Fargo employee #1\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Employee #1 remembers two managers would approach her desk, reprimand her and march her past her colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like being called into the principal's office,\" she says. \"Sit down at the large conference table, no windows in this room, they shut the door, lock the door.\" Then, she says, managers would give her a \"formal warning\" and tell her to sign it. And she says they'd tell her, \"If you don't meet your solutions, you're not a team player. If you're bringing down the team, then you will be fired and it will be on your permanent record.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she was in her early 20s, like many of the lower-level sales people in the office. She says she was afraid to lose her job, especially because this started back when the economy was still in bad shape. \"You were stuck and it was the feeling that no other employer is going to want you because we will ruin you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employee #1 says after one of these coaching sessions, she threw up in the wastebasket under her desk. Erik compared the job to being in an abusive relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former branch manager we spoke with in the downtown area said he didn't think many managers would be so specific as to outright threaten people with their jobs. Another former worker said his managers would try to be nice about the warnings. But both said that basic message, that your job was on the line, would be conveyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sales culture at Wells Fargo helped the bank's bottom line. Wells Fargo expanded the number of products it sold to millions of customers, and from 2006 to 2015 the bank's stock rose 67 percent. It has since fallen, after news of the banking scandal broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR spoke with former employees who worked at Wells Fargo in San Francisco between the years 2004 and 2011. And they all said a pressure-cooker sales environment at the bank pushed some of their co-workers to deceive customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"TlYSlCWls5roH3fmSMng65sTqmkhZKIA\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik says no managers directly told him to do anything deceptive with customers. He says they'd ask him: \"Where are you at?' What you got going? How are you gonna get there?\" And then repeat, \"How are you gonna get there?\" And Erik says as long as you hit your numbers, nobody asked any questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat, who also just wants to use his first name, remembers one co-worker issuing lines of credit for customers who never applied for them. \"There was this banker who — he had this unbelievable loan volume and I was thinking, wow, is he that good of a sales person?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Pat says he figured out what was happening after customers started showing up at the branch to complain. They had applied for a home equity loan. That was OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But then they also have a personal line of credit for like $20,000 that they didn't ask for. So then I realized how he was doing all his loans, because he was basically tagging on other loan products in the same application so they wouldn't really notice when they signed the documents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators say deceptive practices like this at Wells Fargo were illegal, though in its \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/08/493130449/wells-fargo-to-pay-around-190-million-over-fake-accounts-that-sparked-bonuses\">$185 million settlement last month\u003c/a> the bank did not admit wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR spoke with former employees who worked at Wells Fargo between 2004 and 2011. They said deceptive practices were widespread. Accounts were being opened without customers' knowledge. And they said managers knew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo says this wasn't the culture of the company. But these workers were not in some backwater branch. They were in the branch on the first floor of the headquarters building, where the CEO himself and the senior management team worked just upstairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We contacted Wells Fargo to ask about all this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo issued the following statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Although the vast majority of our team members do the right thing, every day, on behalf of our customers, these allegations and accusations are very serious. And if any of these things transpired, it's distressing and it's not who Wells Fargo is. Our Board announced last week that it will lead an internal investigation into retail banking sales practices and related matters, and we have agreed to other independent reviews as part of our agreements with the City of Los Angeles, the CFPB and the OCC. Our leadership accepts full responsibility for all unethical sales practices in our retail banking business, and fully committed to doing everything possible to fix this issue, strengthen our culture, and take the necessary actions to restore our customers' trust. This includes our decision to end product sales goals for all of our retail bankers, starting this month.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>When asked whether the bank's decision to end product sales goals was an acknowledgement that the sales culture had gotten out of control at Wells Fargo, Oscar Suris, executive vice president for corporate communications, said, \"We felt definitively removing product sales goals would remove a risk that we can't tolerate and remove an area of concern for the public that we feel needs to be removed so we want to take that off the table entirely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as what happened to Erik: The big, athletic former Wells Fargo banker said after working for the bank for a little more than a year, he was having physical reactions to the amount of stress he was under, \"upset stomach, nerves, eye-twitching.\" So his quit his job. \"It just got to a point where it was like, I just can't handle this, man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worker #1 says eventually she pushed back and refused to meet the sales goals because, she told her managers, there was no ethical way to do it. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo's embattled CEO, John Stumpf, has been spending long hours defending himself in congressional hearings trying to explain the scandal engulfing his bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Wrongful sales practice behavior,\" Stumpf told the Senate banking committee, \"goes against everything regarding our core principles, our ethics and our culture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stumpf says the bank never directed nor wanted employees to provide products and services to customers that they did not want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11115950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11115950 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf testifies about the unauthorized opening of accounts by Wells Fargo during a Senate hearing on September 20, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-960x674.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf testifies about the unauthorized opening of accounts by Wells Fargo during a Senate hearing on Sept. 20, 2016. \u003ccite>(SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But former Wells Fargo employees have been watching that testimony — and the ones we spoke to say, in no uncertain terms, they aren't buying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Bulls***,\" says one former employee who we'll call Worker #1. She doesn't want to use her name for fear that talking to NPR will prevent her from getting a job at another bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says Stumpf is not describing the Wells Fargo she worked at for five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's the whole foundation of Wells Fargo is cross-sell, cross-sell, cross sell,\" she says, referring to the bank's sales approach of offering customers with, for example, a checking account many other types of products, too — credit cards, home loans, lines of credit, etc. Of course, there's nothing wrong with that in principle. But Worker #1 says that in practice Wells Fargo pushed it beyond reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody needs a ridiculous amount of products,\" she says. And the sales culture was so intense she says that some workers even in the headquarters and other San Francisco branches resorted to deceptive practices to make their sales goals. \"That completely contradicts what he's saying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This employee is upset about what the bank did and how she was treated. But it didn't start out that way. Standing on the street last week looking up at the corporate headquarters building, she remembers back in 2007, showing up for her first day of work at the branch here. She says she was excited and a little overdressed. She was wearing stiletto heels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I probably had about a pound of hairspray in my hair,\" she says. \"I felt proud, and my parents were proud of me for getting a job at headquarters. I was very hopeful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worker #1 hadn't even finished college yet, so this seemed like a big break. But right away, she said, working as a \"personal banker\" in the branch here was not what she expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the number of products she was expected to sell — checking and savings accounts, credit cards — seemed really high: at least eight products a day. Sometimes it was even more. During a sales push called \"Jump into January\" former employees say they were expected to sell 20 products a day. That just seemed impossible to Worker #1, and she says the pressure on her and her co-workers to sell was disturbingly intense. \"We were all miserable, and it was just soul-crushing to walk in every day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik, who also worked at the headquarters branch and wants to use only his first name, describes the sales pressure this way: \"It was every day, man. It was literally every day. It was a grind-house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11116005\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11116005 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Crocker branch of Wells Fargo on 1 Montgomery Street in San Francisco, where former employees say the sales pressure was also intense and the deceptive practices widespread.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Crocker branch of Wells Fargo at 1 Montgomery St. in San Francisco, where former employees say the sales pressure was also intense and the deceptive practices widespread. \u003ccite>(Ariel Zambelich/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Erik says mornings started with a huddle, where managers pressed workers to meet their \"solutions goals.\" Each credit card or home equity loan or other product was called a solution. And all day long workers were told to sell solutions, sell solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was multiple occasions where I saw my co-workers were cracking under the pressure,\" Erik says. \"Tears, crying, constantly getting pulled into the backroom having one-on-ones for coaching sessions.\" Erik says. \"You know, there was a lot of coaching happening,\" and he winks. Why the wink? Erik is a big strong-looking guy. He played sports all through college. He says this wasn't really \"coaching.\" Managers called it that, but it was just leaning on employees to sell more solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik says if you didn't meet your sales goals, that's when employees would have to have these so-called coaching sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'You were stuck and it was the feeling that no other employer is going to want you because we will ruin you.'\u003ccite>Wells Fargo employee #1\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Employee #1 remembers two managers would approach her desk, reprimand her and march her past her colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like being called into the principal's office,\" she says. \"Sit down at the large conference table, no windows in this room, they shut the door, lock the door.\" Then, she says, managers would give her a \"formal warning\" and tell her to sign it. And she says they'd tell her, \"If you don't meet your solutions, you're not a team player. If you're bringing down the team, then you will be fired and it will be on your permanent record.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she was in her early 20s, like many of the lower-level sales people in the office. She says she was afraid to lose her job, especially because this started back when the economy was still in bad shape. \"You were stuck and it was the feeling that no other employer is going to want you because we will ruin you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employee #1 says after one of these coaching sessions, she threw up in the wastebasket under her desk. Erik compared the job to being in an abusive relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former branch manager we spoke with in the downtown area said he didn't think many managers would be so specific as to outright threaten people with their jobs. Another former worker said his managers would try to be nice about the warnings. But both said that basic message, that your job was on the line, would be conveyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sales culture at Wells Fargo helped the bank's bottom line. Wells Fargo expanded the number of products it sold to millions of customers, and from 2006 to 2015 the bank's stock rose 67 percent. It has since fallen, after news of the banking scandal broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR spoke with former employees who worked at Wells Fargo in San Francisco between the years 2004 and 2011. And they all said a pressure-cooker sales environment at the bank pushed some of their co-workers to deceive customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik says no managers directly told him to do anything deceptive with customers. He says they'd ask him: \"Where are you at?' What you got going? How are you gonna get there?\" And then repeat, \"How are you gonna get there?\" And Erik says as long as you hit your numbers, nobody asked any questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat, who also just wants to use his first name, remembers one co-worker issuing lines of credit for customers who never applied for them. \"There was this banker who — he had this unbelievable loan volume and I was thinking, wow, is he that good of a sales person?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Pat says he figured out what was happening after customers started showing up at the branch to complain. They had applied for a home equity loan. That was OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But then they also have a personal line of credit for like $20,000 that they didn't ask for. So then I realized how he was doing all his loans, because he was basically tagging on other loan products in the same application so they wouldn't really notice when they signed the documents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators say deceptive practices like this at Wells Fargo were illegal, though in its \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/08/493130449/wells-fargo-to-pay-around-190-million-over-fake-accounts-that-sparked-bonuses\">$185 million settlement last month\u003c/a> the bank did not admit wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR spoke with former employees who worked at Wells Fargo between 2004 and 2011. They said deceptive practices were widespread. Accounts were being opened without customers' knowledge. And they said managers knew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo says this wasn't the culture of the company. But these workers were not in some backwater branch. They were in the branch on the first floor of the headquarters building, where the CEO himself and the senior management team worked just upstairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We contacted Wells Fargo to ask about all this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo issued the following statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Although the vast majority of our team members do the right thing, every day, on behalf of our customers, these allegations and accusations are very serious. And if any of these things transpired, it's distressing and it's not who Wells Fargo is. Our Board announced last week that it will lead an internal investigation into retail banking sales practices and related matters, and we have agreed to other independent reviews as part of our agreements with the City of Los Angeles, the CFPB and the OCC. Our leadership accepts full responsibility for all unethical sales practices in our retail banking business, and fully committed to doing everything possible to fix this issue, strengthen our culture, and take the necessary actions to restore our customers' trust. This includes our decision to end product sales goals for all of our retail bankers, starting this month.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>When asked whether the bank's decision to end product sales goals was an acknowledgement that the sales culture had gotten out of control at Wells Fargo, Oscar Suris, executive vice president for corporate communications, said, \"We felt definitively removing product sales goals would remove a risk that we can't tolerate and remove an area of concern for the public that we feel needs to be removed so we want to take that off the table entirely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as what happened to Erik: The big, athletic former Wells Fargo banker said after working for the bank for a little more than a year, he was having physical reactions to the amount of stress he was under, \"upset stomach, nerves, eye-twitching.\" So his quit his job. \"It just got to a point where it was like, I just can't handle this, man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worker #1 says eventually she pushed back and refused to meet the sales goals because, she told her managers, there was no ethical way to do it. She says she called the bank's ethics hotline about that multiple times. She was fired by Wells Fargo in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The case was unsolved for decades, until a DNA hit led cold case investigators to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/capital_punishment/docs/condemnedinmatelistsecure.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Hirschfield\u003c/a>, who was serving time in a Washington State prison for child molestation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286001556\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Hirschfield was sentenced to death by a Sacramento jury, 33 years after what became known as \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlxmMeaW36w\" target=\"_blank\">the Sweetheart Murders\u003c/a>.\" Hirschfield is currently one of nearly 750 people on California's death row.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I’m not too concerned about it because I really don’t think that I’m going to be killed,'\u003ccite>Richard Hirschfield\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For Richard Riggins, the execution can't come soon enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re going to give him a general anesthesia, like people do every day for major operative procedures,\" Riggins tells me. \"He just isn’t going to wake up. He is going to die in his sleep. So cruel and unusual punishment? Not really.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On my visit to death row late last year, Richard Hirschfield, the man who killed John Riggins and his girlfriend, told me he wasn't too concerned about getting an execution date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m not too concerned about it because I really don’t think that I’m going to be killed,\" Hirschfield said through the bars on his prison cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hirschfield has good reason to think that. Since California reinstated the death penalty in 1978, nearly \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Capital_Punishment/history_of_capital_punishment.html\" target=\"_blank\">900 death sentences \u003c/a>have been handed down by juries. And yet the state has executed just 13 condemned inmates. The last was Clarence Ray Allen in January 2006. Later that year, federal \u003ca href=\"http://www.cand.uscourts.gov/jf\" target=\"_blank\">Judge Jeremy Fogel \u003c/a>suspended executions until the state revises the protocol it uses to put inmates to death. 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With that in mind, backers of \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/quick-reference-guide/66.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 66 \u003c/a>are seeking to reduce the time between a death sentence being handed down and carried out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 66 seeks to \"mend, not end\" the death penalty so that decades-long delays are eliminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would do that by changing the procedures governing legal appeals, which are automatic in California. It would also require more attorneys to accept death penalty appeals cases and train them in how to handle those cases. And it would shorten the amount of time allowed for state appeals and require death row inmates to work while in prison and pay restitution to their victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's unconscionable that it should take 25 to 30 years, and that individuals are dying on death row of natural causes, when a jury has said that this (death) is an appropriate sentence for very rare circumstances,\" says Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert. She thinks Proposition 66 will help deliver more timely justice to crime victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course not everyone agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That initiative is a false promise of expediting death sentences,\" says Santa Clara University Law School professor Ellen Kreitzberg. She supports \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/quick-reference-guide/62.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 62\u003c/a>, a competing measure to end the death penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The danger with Proposition 66,\" she says, \"is it does limit and narrow the ability to present newly discovered evidence, which is how most of these innocence claims are presented in court.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other critics of Proposition 66 think speeding up the appeals process could lead to a catastrophic mistake in California -- like executing an innocent person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weak link in Proposition 66 might be funding it. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re going to give him a general anesthesia, like people do every day for major operative procedures,\" Riggins tells me. \"He just isn’t going to wake up. He is going to die in his sleep. So cruel and unusual punishment? Not really.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On my visit to death row late last year, Richard Hirschfield, the man who killed John Riggins and his girlfriend, told me he wasn't too concerned about getting an execution date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m not too concerned about it because I really don’t think that I’m going to be killed,\" Hirschfield said through the bars on his prison cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hirschfield has good reason to think that. Since California reinstated the death penalty in 1978, nearly \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Capital_Punishment/history_of_capital_punishment.html\" target=\"_blank\">900 death sentences \u003c/a>have been handed down by juries. 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There hasn't been an execution since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder-1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11110853\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder-1-800x506.png\" alt=\"How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder (1)\" width=\"800\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder-1-800x506.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder-1-400x253.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder-1-1180x747.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder-1-960x608.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/How_People_Died_on_Death_Row_in_California_Executed_Natural_Causes_Suicide_Executed_in_Other_State_Other_chartbuilder-1.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nEven before Fogel stopped executions, legal appeals for death row inmates dragged on for 20 years or more. 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