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The officers “proned him out on the ground, and he still continued to struggle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams’ sister, Christina Williams, 21, said officers beat her brother needlessly outside their front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was just coming in the house,” she said in an interview Monday. “And they want to say they’re coming after him for riding a bike on the sidewalk. He had to bring the bike on the sidewalk to come into the house.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Police say five officers were injured in the brawl, which led to a total of four arrests. Those detained included a man who was shoved and punched by a plainclothes officer. The community responded with \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2013/11/valencia-gardens-residents-protest-police-action/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Tuesday night protest\u003c/a> of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119194\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/DJ-7.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-119194 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/DJ-7-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Residents of Valencia Gardens Apartments and others protest the arrest of D’Paris Williams. 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She says police behavior is just one side of the coin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Excessive force is in the eye of the beholder. We don’t have all the details,” Cordell said. “Why did other people get involved? Did they make threats against the police? Were they hostile?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell thinks every officer should wear a camera. She believes that would help provide an objective record, protecting both the officer and the person who is approached, reducing the inherent problems of “he said, she said” scenarios. Just this week, Palo Alto’s City Council \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_24551145/police-palo-alto-wear-video-cameras\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approved\u003c/a> cameras for some of its patrol cars and officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco Chronicle columnist C.W. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-118480\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2013/11/15/batkidnp.jpg\" alt=\"BatKid\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nPolice escort 5-year-old leukemia survivor Miles Scott, also known as BatKid, after they arrest the Riddler in San Francisco. Make-A-Wish Greater Bay Area foundation \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/15/follow-batkid-as-he-saves-gotham-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">turned the city into Gotham City\u003c/a> for Miles by creating a day-long event bringing his wish to be a BatKid to life. (Ramin Talaie/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-118480\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Greenpeace.jpg\" alt=\"Greenpeace\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nGreenpeace members motor out in a small boat to greet the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/11/rainbow-warrior-docks-in-san-francisco/\">Rainbow Warrior III as it enters a foggy San Francisco Bay\u003c/a> on Friday, November 8. A banner hanging from the side of the iconic ship calls attention to 30 Greenpeace activists currently imprisoned in Russia. The crew members of the Arctic Sunrise were arrested after protesting oil drilling in the Arctic at an oil rig owned by Gazprom, Russia's state-controlled energy company. (Deborah Svoboda / KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2013/11/12/richmond-celebrates-veterans-day/\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-118481\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/PhotoWeek131115VetsPropello.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek131115VetsPropello\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nVisitors \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2013/11/12/richmond-celebrates-veterans-day/\">explore a large propeller\u003c/a> at the stern of the SS Red Oak Victory during a Veterans Day celebration in Richmond. Veterans Day events at the Port of Richmond included a memorial flower toss from the deck of the Red Oak Victory and the dedication of the historic Riggers Loft. (Mark Andrew Boyer / \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/\">Richmond Confidential\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2013/11/12/richmond-celebrates-veterans-day/\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-118482\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/PhotoWeek131115VetsWreath.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek131115VetsWreath\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nVeterans Lou Berg, George Coles, Orlo Mellon and Dee Davison smile after \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2013/11/12/richmond-celebrates-veterans-day/\">tossing a memorial wreath\u003c/a> from the deck of the SS Red Oak Victory during the Veterans Day celebration at the Port of Richmond. (Kevin N. 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(Sukey Lewis / \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/\">Richmond Confidential\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-118484\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/typhoon.jpg\" alt=\"typhoon\" width=\"640\" height=\"449\">\u003cbr>\nFilpino-American \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/10/philippines-relief-effort-gears-up-in-bay-area\">community groups throughout the Bay Area\u003c/a> are scrambling to send relief — both supplies and money — to help those in the wide swath of the Philippines devastated by Typhoon Haiyan. Volunteers with \u003ca href=\"http://www.projectpearls.org/\">Project PEARLS\u003c/a> pack donated food and supplies to send to victims in the Philippines. (Nina Thorsen / KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-118486\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Richard-Brown.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Brown\" width=\"639\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nRichard Brown (front) was sentenced to 25 years to life after he was arrested while stealing two car alarms from a Walgreens store in Stockton. After serving 18 years of his sentence, Brown was released under \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/a-year-after-three-strikes-california/\">resentencing laws Californians passed over a year ago\u003c/a> that allow the release of third strikers convicted of non-violent, non-serious crimes. Minard Roorda and his wife Viviane (back) regularly visited Brown in prison, and\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/california-third-strikers-find-their-own-path-to-freedom/\"> helped Brown\u003c/a> settle and find work near them in the small town of Ripon, Calif. (Sarah Rice / KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-118485\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/3-strikes.jpg\" alt=\"3 strikes\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nA year after release, only \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/a-year-after-three-strikes-california/\">2 percent of three strikers \u003c/a>have committed new crimes. Most, like Richard Brown, want to move on with their lives. One of the jobs Richard does at his work, five days a week, is to operate the forklift and move almond-harvesting equipment to other locations. He also welds and paints. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Michael Montgomery, Lisa Pickoff-White and Suzie Racho\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little more than a year ago, Californians voted to allow the release of third strikers convicted of non-violent, non-serious crimes. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/a-year-after-three-strikes-california/\">Since then, about 1,000 people have been released.\u003c/a> KQED followed three men from prison to their new lives outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Brown\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RichardBrown11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118324\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RichardBrown11.jpg\" alt=\"From left, Minard and Vivian Roorda, with Richard Brown. (Sarah Rice/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Minard and Viviane Roorda, with Richard Brown. (Sarah Rice/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richard Brown, 61, was sentenced to 25 years to life in 1995 after he was arrested while stealing two car alarms from a Walgreens store in Stockton. Brown, a former heroin addict, served prison time for assault in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120203629\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most three strikers who are released have served so much extra time that they’re not placed on parole or probation. Often that means they don’t have access to substance abuse, mental health and other re-entry programs as well as housing. Brown, who served 17 years for a 5-year sentence, finds the lack of assistance insulting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just get the regular $200 that everyone else gets, with no transitional programs. No type of assistance, no consideration of families being lost, families being separated, people dying, things happening in our lives over the years, or getting older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have any type of transitional programs for people that are getting released that have served a lot of extra time for the crimes that were committed. So it is unfair, the way we’re being treated. I’m… blessed because of the support system that I have and the people that’s been right there for me throughout the course of these 18 years that I was in prison. Everyone doesn’t have this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownfather.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118322\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownfather.jpg\" alt=\"Brown, at home, reads a letter from his friend Shorty, who's still in San Quentin, out loud to Roorda. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED) \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown, at home in Ripon with Roorda, reads a letter from his friend Shorty, who’s still in San Quentin. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown met Minard and Vivian Roorda in 1995 after his conviction. They became friends, and the Roordas visited Brown regularly in prison. They visited Brown one night after church. Brown saw their visit as a sign:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went back to my cell and cried like a baby and thanked the Lord because he answered a prayer that I asked. I said, ‘Lord, I’m going to prison with 25 years to life for this petty theft offense and I don’t want to go in there with an attitude, rambunctious. I want to go in there to serve you. So let me know if you’re real in my life and that you hear this prayer.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Brown’s release, the Roordas helped him settle in Ripon, where they own a farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownweld.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118323\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownweld.jpg\" alt=\"Brown operates a forklift, moving almond harvesting equipment. He also welds and paints. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown operates a forklift, moving almond-harvesting equipment. He also welds and paints. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A longtime singer, Brown formed a gospel group, Neu Dae, while serving time in San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got together with two other prisoners, Rico and Shorty, and we formed this gospel group. …All we had, basically, was a keyboard that we operated with, that had a drum machine set in and all, but for the most part our voices would complement one another when we sang, and we knew that it had to be a gift, which it was a gift, and is a gift, from God.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robert Watts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7607_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7607_transform.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts in Berkeley. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Watts in Berkeley. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Robert Watts, 41, was sentenced to life under California’s Three Strikes law for possession of stolen property. He had been in and out of prison on assault and robbery charges. He was released from San Quentin and currently is enrolled in a re-entry program in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120204283\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors can challenge Prop. 36 petitions, arguing that the inmates pose an unacceptable public-safety risk. Watts felt his hearing had gone poorly, and was shocked when a parole officer took him to the bus station instead of San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[They took me to the] Greyhound bus station, and the cop asked me when he opened the door, he goes ‘You’re from Kern County?’ and I said ‘Yeah.’ He goes ‘You just walk.’ He walked off. I just went to the phone and called my dad and my dad freaked out. It was kind of weird.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know if it was real or not. They dropped me off, but I’m standing there, and he walks away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/watts03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118354\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/watts03.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts in Kern County Prison. (Gregory D. Cook/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"813\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Watts in Kern County Prison. (Gregory D. Cook/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/wattsfam.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/wattsfam.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts' son, Nicky, and father, Tom, wait before his hearing. (Gregory Cook/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Watts’ son Nicky, and father, Tom, wait before his hearing. (Gregory D. Cook/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Watts’ parents have been raising his 13-year-old son, Nicky, in Bakersfield. Since his release, Watts has moved to Berkeley and into a re-entry program, but he is still having a hard time readjusting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think anybody owes me anything. I don’t want to put that off on anybody, but I wish there was some kind of structure. … Like ‘Here, just get out. Here’s $200, leave.’ If you’re on parole, you have somebody looking over you, and if you don’t have no place to stay, parole is going to find you an address because they need an address for you to stay, so you’ve got some place to stay. Right now, you’re done. You’re over it. So in the back of my mind, if I could get a 16-month term, half-time, I’d probably go back real quick so I could be on parole. Just so I could come back and be on parole and I’d have all this funding. Eight months wouldn’t be anything in prison, and I’d be on parole then, and then I’d have this funding to help me through basic needs, I guess, without trying to bother my family for other things that I don’t really want to bother them for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pete Marin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7603_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118369\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7603_transform.jpg\" alt=\"Pete Marin served 18 years for petty theft. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Marin served 18 years for petty theft. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pete Marin, 52, served 18 years for petty theft under Three Strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120203941\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin says that some inmates feel that their Three Strikes sentences helped them live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What would happen to us if we didn’t get this life sentence? There’s a saying that God rescued us. He sent a black-and-white, and that’s how God rescued us… A police car. I probably would have either OD’d or maybe died, got killed… The lifestyle that we had, I used to do drugs. If I had more money, I’d do more drugs, and keep doing it and doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re facing a life sentence, that really is a rude awakening. It awakens you, and it’s for real.\u003cbr>\nWhen I got busted, and I was in jail, and they told me that I was a Three Strike candidate, it really shook me. It broke me; it really broke me. A lot of things developed that night that I got busted, in my life. It was part of my testimony, how God revealed himself to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7602_threestrikers03_adi-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118370\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7602_threestrikers03_adi-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"Marin at his sister's home. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marin at his sister’s home. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since his release, Marin spends time helping other former third strikers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got out, my mind was running so fast. It was kind of hard to explain. When I was trying to read, I couldn’t read. I caught myself thinking; my mind was running, and it was hard for me to concentrate, because there were so many things happening. I was a little shy and reserved, being amazed at a lot of things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For instance, when we got off the freeway, the area where I grew up at, I didn’t even recognize it. They did sidewalks and trees; I couldn’t believe where I was at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cell phone thing; I would be in my cell, and we would see TV, and we would see people, everyone texting and using the cell phone. I would think in my mind, ‘I would never do that. I’ll be out there, and I’ll be talking to people, and have conversations one-on-one with people.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Marin’s nieces and nephews are teaching him how to text. While Marin’s family is supportive, he says his prison time makes many people uncomfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was talking to a gentleman the other day, and he realized that I was in prison. His demeanor changed. I knew what it was. He was uncomfortable. It kind of hurt a little bit. I could understand his not feeling comfortable. I could understand it. I know, every time I was in prison, I realized that a lot of people who are on the streets, they believe that we’re the scum of the earth. That’s one of the reasons why I am sitting here in this interview. There are a lot of good people that had addictions, and that have come out; that have changed their life, and the system did do its job. There’s men that have changed, that have came out, and they’ve changed their life. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most three strikers who are released have served so much extra time that they’re not placed on parole or probation. Often that means they don’t have access to substance abuse, mental health and other re-entry programs as well as housing. Brown, who served 17 years for a 5-year sentence, finds the lack of assistance insulting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just get the regular $200 that everyone else gets, with no transitional programs. No type of assistance, no consideration of families being lost, families being separated, people dying, things happening in our lives over the years, or getting older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have any type of transitional programs for people that are getting released that have served a lot of extra time for the crimes that were committed. So it is unfair, the way we’re being treated. I’m… blessed because of the support system that I have and the people that’s been right there for me throughout the course of these 18 years that I was in prison. Everyone doesn’t have this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownfather.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118322\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownfather.jpg\" alt=\"Brown, at home, reads a letter from his friend Shorty, who's still in San Quentin, out loud to Roorda. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED) \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown, at home in Ripon with Roorda, reads a letter from his friend Shorty, who’s still in San Quentin. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown met Minard and Vivian Roorda in 1995 after his conviction. They became friends, and the Roordas visited Brown regularly in prison. They visited Brown one night after church. Brown saw their visit as a sign:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went back to my cell and cried like a baby and thanked the Lord because he answered a prayer that I asked. I said, ‘Lord, I’m going to prison with 25 years to life for this petty theft offense and I don’t want to go in there with an attitude, rambunctious. I want to go in there to serve you. So let me know if you’re real in my life and that you hear this prayer.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Brown’s release, the Roordas helped him settle in Ripon, where they own a farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownweld.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118323\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownweld.jpg\" alt=\"Brown operates a forklift, moving almond harvesting equipment. He also welds and paints. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown operates a forklift, moving almond-harvesting equipment. He also welds and paints. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A longtime singer, Brown formed a gospel group, Neu Dae, while serving time in San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got together with two other prisoners, Rico and Shorty, and we formed this gospel group. …All we had, basically, was a keyboard that we operated with, that had a drum machine set in and all, but for the most part our voices would complement one another when we sang, and we knew that it had to be a gift, which it was a gift, and is a gift, from God.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robert Watts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7607_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7607_transform.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts in Berkeley. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Watts in Berkeley. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Robert Watts, 41, was sentenced to life under California’s Three Strikes law for possession of stolen property. He had been in and out of prison on assault and robbery charges. He was released from San Quentin and currently is enrolled in a re-entry program in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120204283\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors can challenge Prop. 36 petitions, arguing that the inmates pose an unacceptable public-safety risk. Watts felt his hearing had gone poorly, and was shocked when a parole officer took him to the bus station instead of San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[They took me to the] Greyhound bus station, and the cop asked me when he opened the door, he goes ‘You’re from Kern County?’ and I said ‘Yeah.’ He goes ‘You just walk.’ He walked off. I just went to the phone and called my dad and my dad freaked out. It was kind of weird.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know if it was real or not. They dropped me off, but I’m standing there, and he walks away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/watts03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118354\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/watts03.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts in Kern County Prison. (Gregory D. Cook/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"813\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Watts in Kern County Prison. (Gregory D. Cook/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/wattsfam.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/wattsfam.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts' son, Nicky, and father, Tom, wait before his hearing. (Gregory Cook/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Watts’ son Nicky, and father, Tom, wait before his hearing. (Gregory D. Cook/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Watts’ parents have been raising his 13-year-old son, Nicky, in Bakersfield. Since his release, Watts has moved to Berkeley and into a re-entry program, but he is still having a hard time readjusting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think anybody owes me anything. I don’t want to put that off on anybody, but I wish there was some kind of structure. … Like ‘Here, just get out. Here’s $200, leave.’ If you’re on parole, you have somebody looking over you, and if you don’t have no place to stay, parole is going to find you an address because they need an address for you to stay, so you’ve got some place to stay. Right now, you’re done. You’re over it. So in the back of my mind, if I could get a 16-month term, half-time, I’d probably go back real quick so I could be on parole. Just so I could come back and be on parole and I’d have all this funding. Eight months wouldn’t be anything in prison, and I’d be on parole then, and then I’d have this funding to help me through basic needs, I guess, without trying to bother my family for other things that I don’t really want to bother them for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pete Marin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7603_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118369\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7603_transform.jpg\" alt=\"Pete Marin served 18 years for petty theft. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Marin served 18 years for petty theft. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pete Marin, 52, served 18 years for petty theft under Three Strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120203941\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin says that some inmates feel that their Three Strikes sentences helped them live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What would happen to us if we didn’t get this life sentence? There’s a saying that God rescued us. He sent a black-and-white, and that’s how God rescued us… A police car. I probably would have either OD’d or maybe died, got killed… The lifestyle that we had, I used to do drugs. If I had more money, I’d do more drugs, and keep doing it and doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re facing a life sentence, that really is a rude awakening. It awakens you, and it’s for real.\u003cbr>\nWhen I got busted, and I was in jail, and they told me that I was a Three Strike candidate, it really shook me. It broke me; it really broke me. A lot of things developed that night that I got busted, in my life. It was part of my testimony, how God revealed himself to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7602_threestrikers03_adi-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118370\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7602_threestrikers03_adi-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"Marin at his sister's home. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marin at his sister’s home. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since his release, Marin spends time helping other former third strikers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got out, my mind was running so fast. It was kind of hard to explain. When I was trying to read, I couldn’t read. I caught myself thinking; my mind was running, and it was hard for me to concentrate, because there were so many things happening. I was a little shy and reserved, being amazed at a lot of things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For instance, when we got off the freeway, the area where I grew up at, I didn’t even recognize it. They did sidewalks and trees; I couldn’t believe where I was at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cell phone thing; I would be in my cell, and we would see TV, and we would see people, everyone texting and using the cell phone. I would think in my mind, ‘I would never do that. I’ll be out there, and I’ll be talking to people, and have conversations one-on-one with people.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Marin’s nieces and nephews are teaching him how to text. While Marin’s family is supportive, he says his prison time makes many people uncomfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was talking to a gentleman the other day, and he realized that I was in prison. His demeanor changed. I knew what it was. He was uncomfortable. It kind of hurt a little bit. I could understand his not feeling comfortable. I could understand it. I know, every time I was in prison, I realized that a lot of people who are on the streets, they believe that we’re the scum of the earth. That’s one of the reasons why I am sitting here in this interview. There are a lot of good people that had addictions, and that have come out; that have changed their life, and the system did do its job. There’s men that have changed, that have came out, and they’ve changed their life. I would like to be a representative, so to speak, to let them know that there are men that have changed their life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7602_threestrikers03_adi-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118370\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7602_threestrikers03_adi-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"Pete Marin, 52, served 18 years for petty theft under California's 1994 Three Strikes law. (Adithya Sambamurthy/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Marin, 52, served 18 years for petty theft under California’s 1994 Three Strikes law. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A little more than a year ago, Californians voted for Proposition 36, allowing the release of three-strikers convicted of non-violent, non-serious crimes. Since then, about 1,000 people have been released. \u003cstrong>KQED’s Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong> followed three men as they left prison and adapted to their new lives outside, and interviewed multiple experts and stakeholders about the state’s criminal justice system.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120493008\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">C\u003c/span>onvicted of stealing two car alarms from a Walgreens store, Richard Brown spent 18 years in prison under California’s notorious Three Strikes law. Then, quite suddenly, he was standing outside the gates of San Quentin earlier this year, a free man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They told me to get off the property,” he says. “I asked if there was a phone booth or something. They said no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Robert Watts, who served 13 years for receiving stolen property, getting out of prison involved an emotional legal tangle with local prosecutors who insisted he was an unredeemed career criminal and should remain behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was unpleasant,” he says. “But at least it’s over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The measure does not appear to be endangering public safety.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For both men, freedom came as the result of Proposition 36, the ballot initiative approved last year by voters in every county in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure changed the 1994 law that had allowed judges to impose life sentences for low-level felonies such as petty theft and drug possession. The new law focuses on serious and violent crimes. It’s also retroactive, allowing current inmates whose third strike was non-violent and non-serious to petition the courts for resentencing and possible release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the measure have argued that the original Three Strikes law worked well and contributed to a dramatic fall in violent crime over the past two decades. Granting some inmates early release, they said, would lead to a spike in crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guarantee that a significant percentage of them are going to re-offend, and re-offend in serious ways,” said Ed Jagels, the former District Attorney for Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents also said prosecutors today are using the law judiciously, pointing out that more than 80 percent of three strikers were sentenced prior to 2000. Changing the law, they said, would remove an important tool from the prosecutorial toolbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, Prop. 36 does not appear to be endangering public safety, according to a recent report by Stanford Law School and the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing state data, the report concluded that of the more than 1,000 inmates released from prison under the measure, fewer than 2 percent have been charged with new crimes. By comparison, the average recidivism rate over a similar time period for non-Prop. 36 inmates is 16 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 242px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7606_RichardBrown17-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-118400\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7606_RichardBrown17-hpf-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"From left: Minard Roorda, Richard Brown and Vivian Roorda\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Minard Roorda, Richard Brown and Vivian Roorda\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opponents’ prediction of the measure unleashing “blood in the streets” was hyperbole, said David Mills, a Stanford law professor who helped fund the initiative. “Millions of dollars have been saved and many lives changed, hopefully for the better,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Like their adopted son\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a blessing,” says Richard Brown, a 61-year-old former drug addict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of his arrest in 1995, Brown says he was unaware that the Three Strikes law had been implemented the previous year. “I heard about it but I didn’t think they’d be that out of control with the sentencing guidelines,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his release, Brown moved to Ripon, a small farming community south of Stockton, where he found a job with a company that assembles agricultural machinery. An aspiring gospel musician, he also sings in a local church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown was drawn to Ripon by Minard and Vivian Roorda, local farmers who learned of his case from a neighbor 18 years ago. The Roordas supported Brown like an adopted son, visiting him regularly in prisons around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minard Roorda says he voted for the original Three Strikes law but realized it cast too wide a net and left men like Brown languishing in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are they not deserved a second chance?” he said. “Are they not deserving our help? Are they not deserving our love?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”65205eb25f5e5994cdf081bee3ffdbd1″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While prosecutors have challenged some Prop. 36 petitions, arguing that the inmates pose an unacceptable public safety risk, few of those efforts have been successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Robert Watts’ case, Kern County prosecutors sought to block his release, citing evidence of marijuana use in prison and his prior convictions for robbery and assault. But the effort failed and the judge ordered Watts’ release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, after a flurry of releases earlier this year, the pace has slowed to a trickle. In Los Angeles and some other counties, inmate petitions are getting stuck in the courts, creating a backlog of inmates who are still in prison even though they are eligible for resentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a steady decline in the number of petitions that have been reviewed,” said Bonnie Dumanis, district attorney for San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial round of Prop. 36 reviews mainly involved low-risk inmates who were being fast-tracked for release. Now, courts are facing “hard, challenging cases where people have mental health issues or have some issues that need to be dealt with,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye met with officials from several large counties to discuss ways to make the petition process “more efficient and effective,” Dumanis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 2,000 inmates eligible for resentencing under Prop. 36 remain in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘They give you $200 and kick you out’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several former three strikers say their challenge has been coping with life on the streets without the structure of prison and support normally provided to newly released felons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most three strikers who qualify for release have served so much extra time they’re not placed on parole or probation. Often that means that don’t have access to substance abuse, mental health and other re-entry programs as well as housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They give you $200 and kick you out, and they don’t give you any type of papers to indicate that you can go down to this program or (that) program,” said Brown. He considers himself lucky to have a job, home and support network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many people coming out, it’s a nightmare,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Most three strikers have served so much time they aren’t placed on parole or probation when released.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In some counties, prosecutors, public defenders and legal aid groups are starting to develop support networks for three strikers coming out of prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former inmates are also supporting each other. Twice each week Pete Marin of Bakersfield checks in on his friend Eddie Alwell. Marin and Alwell served 18 years behind bars, one for petty theft, the other for drug possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alwell, 65, is frail and was recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Much of his day is spent looking after six grandchildren. He met them for the first time after leaving prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin says he helps out Alwell around his house and drives him to the store and to church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of men who were sentenced under three strikes…have realized that their life before was bad,” he said. “So a lot of them want to change. I think some kind of program to help them get on their feet and lead them in the right way…would be very important.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Granting some inmates early release, they said, would lead to a spike in crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guarantee that a significant percentage of them are going to re-offend, and re-offend in serious ways,” said Ed Jagels, the former District Attorney for Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents also said prosecutors today are using the law judiciously, pointing out that more than 80 percent of three strikers were sentenced prior to 2000. Changing the law, they said, would remove an important tool from the prosecutorial toolbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, Prop. 36 does not appear to be endangering public safety, according to a recent report by Stanford Law School and the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing state data, the report concluded that of the more than 1,000 inmates released from prison under the measure, fewer than 2 percent have been charged with new crimes. By comparison, the average recidivism rate over a similar time period for non-Prop. 36 inmates is 16 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 242px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7606_RichardBrown17-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-118400\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7606_RichardBrown17-hpf-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"From left: Minard Roorda, Richard Brown and Vivian Roorda\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Minard Roorda, Richard Brown and Vivian Roorda\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opponents’ prediction of the measure unleashing “blood in the streets” was hyperbole, said David Mills, a Stanford law professor who helped fund the initiative. “Millions of dollars have been saved and many lives changed, hopefully for the better,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Like their adopted son\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a blessing,” says Richard Brown, a 61-year-old former drug addict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of his arrest in 1995, Brown says he was unaware that the Three Strikes law had been implemented the previous year. “I heard about it but I didn’t think they’d be that out of control with the sentencing guidelines,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his release, Brown moved to Ripon, a small farming community south of Stockton, where he found a job with a company that assembles agricultural machinery. An aspiring gospel musician, he also sings in a local church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown was drawn to Ripon by Minard and Vivian Roorda, local farmers who learned of his case from a neighbor 18 years ago. The Roordas supported Brown like an adopted son, visiting him regularly in prisons around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minard Roorda says he voted for the original Three Strikes law but realized it cast too wide a net and left men like Brown languishing in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are they not deserved a second chance?” he said. “Are they not deserving our help? 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In Los Angeles and some other counties, inmate petitions are getting stuck in the courts, creating a backlog of inmates who are still in prison even though they are eligible for resentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a steady decline in the number of petitions that have been reviewed,” said Bonnie Dumanis, district attorney for San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial round of Prop. 36 reviews mainly involved low-risk inmates who were being fast-tracked for release. Now, courts are facing “hard, challenging cases where people have mental health issues or have some issues that need to be dealt with,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye met with officials from several large counties to discuss ways to make the petition process “more efficient and effective,” Dumanis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 2,000 inmates eligible for resentencing under Prop. 36 remain in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘They give you $200 and kick you out’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several former three strikers say their challenge has been coping with life on the streets without the structure of prison and support normally provided to newly released felons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most three strikers who qualify for release have served so much extra time they’re not placed on parole or probation. Often that means that don’t have access to substance abuse, mental health and other re-entry programs as well as housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They give you $200 and kick you out, and they don’t give you any type of papers to indicate that you can go down to this program or (that) program,” said Brown. He considers himself lucky to have a job, home and support network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many people coming out, it’s a nightmare,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Most three strikers have served so much time they aren’t placed on parole or probation when released.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In some counties, prosecutors, public defenders and legal aid groups are starting to develop support networks for three strikers coming out of prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former inmates are also supporting each other. Twice each week Pete Marin of Bakersfield checks in on his friend Eddie Alwell. 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And while he agreed that the allowances had similarities to a tax, he decided they were more comparable to regulatory fees, which don’t require a supermajority vote.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists praised the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The court sent a strong signal today, thoroughly affirming California's innovative climate protection program — including the vital safeguards to ensure that polluters are held accountable for their harmful emissions,\" said Erica Morehouse, an attorney with the Environmental Defense Fund, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cdiv>\u003cstrong>Here is the Associated Press story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>SACRAMENTO — A judge dismissed two lawsuits Thursday challenging the state's cap-and-trade system that limits greenhouse gases from industrial sources by putting a price on carbon.\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley rejected arguments by the California Chamber of Commerce and Pacific Legal Foundation that the system amounted to an illegal tax. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89425\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/15/news-pix-san-francisco-valentines-day-protest-riverside-police-vigil-berkeley-library-showcases-flying-books/photoweek130215flyingbooks/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-89425\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-89425\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/PhotoWeek130215flyingbooks.gif\" alt=\"(Photo: Kaia Diringer/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Kaia Diringer/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Google won an important \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/14/us-google-books-idUSBRE9AD0TT20131114\">victory\u003c/a> today in its long-standing legal battle with some publishers and authors over the search giant’s book-scanning project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York granted Google’s motion for summary judgment dismissing a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/google-book-scanning-fair-use\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> brought by the Author’s Guild, among others, including several authors, one of whom is former Yankees’ pitcher Jim Bouton, author of “Ball Four.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs, who say they will appeal the decision, argued that Google infringed upon their copyrights by scanning these books without their permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Google made unauthorized digital editions of nearly all of the world's valuable, copyright-protected literature and profits from displaying those works,\" Author’s Guild Executive Director Paul Aiken told ars technica. \"In our view, such mass digitization and exploitation far exceeds the bounds of the fair use defense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google has not only scanned the books, which now number over 20 million titles, according to court documents, but has converted the scanned copies into searchable documents, including “snippets” that are displayed under the company’s assertion of “fair use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Judge: Five Benefits\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was this interpretation of fair use that the court affirmed in today’s decision. In his opinion, Chin listed five main benefits of Google’s “library project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>First, Google Books provides a new and efficient way for readers and researchers to find books. It makes tens of millions of books searchable by words and phrases. It provides a searchable index linking each word in any book to all books in which that word appears. ... Indeed, Google Books has become such an important tool for researchers and librarians that it has been integrated into the educational system — it is taught as part of the information literacy curriculum to students at all levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Digitization facilitates the conversion of books to audio and tactile formats, increasing access for individuals with disabilities.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Second, in addition to being an important reference tool, Google Books greatly promotes a type of research referred to as \"data mining\" or \"text mining.\" Google Books permits humanities scholars to analyze massive amounts of data — the literary record created by a collection of tens of millions of books. Researchers can examine word frequencies, syntactic patterns, and thematic markers to consider how literary style has changed over time…. The ability to determine how often different words or phrases appear in books at different times \"can provide insights about fields as diverse as lexicography, the evolution of grammar, collective memory, the adoption of technology, the pursuit of fame, censorship, and historical epidemiology.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third, Google Books expands access to books. In particular, traditionally underserved populations will benefit as they gain knowledge of and access to far more books. Google Books provides print-disabled individuals with the potential to search for books and read them in a format that is compatible with text enlargement software, text-to-speech screen access software, and Braille devices. Digitization facilitates the conversion of books to audio and tactile formats, increasing access for individuals with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourth, Google Books helps to preserve books and give them new life. Older books, many of which are out-of-print books that are falling apart buried in library stacks, are being scanned and saved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, by helping readers and researchers identify books, Google Books benefits authors and publishers. When a user clicks on a search result and is directed to an \"About the Book\" page, the page will offer links to sellers of the book and/or libraries listing the book as part of their collections. The About the Book page for \"Ball Four,\" for example, provides links to Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com, Books-A-Million, and IndieBound.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110845\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/11/google-street-view-wiretapping-appeals-court-ruling/rs378_google_082411-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-110845\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110845 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/RS378_Google_082411-scr-e1378918079421-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"Google's headquarters, and many of its office buildings, are in Mountain View.\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google's headquarters, and many of its office buildings, are in Mountain View.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Google Utilizes \"Snippets\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ruling, Chin provides an extended explanation for how Google's book-scanning process works. This includes a detailed look at how Google provides numerous \"snippets\" from a book while preventing an \"attacker\" from assembling a complete book from the snippets:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In scanning books…Google uses optical character recognition technology to generate machine-readable text, compiling a digital copy of each book. Google analyzes each scan and creates an overall index of all scanned books. The index links each word or phrase appearing in each book with all of the locations in all of the books in which that word or phrase is found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The index allows a search for a particular word or phrase to return a result that includes the most relevant books in which the word or phrase is found. Because the full texts of books are digitized, a user can search the full text of all the books in the Google Books corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Users of Google's search engine may conduct searches, using queries of their own design. In response to inquiries, Google returns a list of books in which the search term appears. A user can click on a particular result to be directed to an \"About the Book\" page, which will provide the user with information about the book in question. The page includes links to sellers of the books and/or libraries that list the book as part of their collections. No advertisements have ever appeared on any About the Book page that is part of the Library Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For books in \"snippet view\" (in contrast to \"full view\" books), Google divides each page into eighths -- each of which is a \"snippet,\" a verbatim excerpt. Each search generates three snippets, but by performing multiple searches using different search terms, a single user may view far more than three snippets, as different searches can return different snippets. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">An \"attacker\" who tries to obtain an entire book by using a physical copy of the book to string together words appearing in successive passages would be able to obtain at best a patchwork of snippets that would be missing at least one snippet from every page and 10% of all pages.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For example, by making a series of consecutive, slightly different searches of the book\u003cbr>\n“Ball Four,” a single user can view many different snippets from the book. Google takes security measures to prevent users from viewing a complete copy of a snippet-view book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(A) user cannot cause the system to return different sets of snippets for the same search query; the position of each snippet is fixed within the page and does not \"slide\" around the search term; only the first responsive snippet available on any given page will be for the same search query; the position of each snippet is fixed within the page and does not \"slide\" around the search term; only the first responsive snippet available on any given page will be returned in response to a query; one of the snippets on each page is \"black-listed,\" meaning it will not be shown; and at least one out of ten entire pages in each book is black-listed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \"attacker\" who tries to obtain an entire book by using a physical copy of the book to string together words appearing in successive passages would be able to obtain at best a patchwork of snippets that would be missing at least one snippet from every page and 10% of all pages. 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