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The lives he took are still not here. He should do his parole the whole time; he was convicted,” Jennifer Leong, Arboleda’s sister, told KQED. “I still have faith in this court system, and today — today — they gave me some hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charges for Arboleda’s death were filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870567/video-footage-of-tyrell-wilson-killing-released-as-same-danville-officer-charged-in-another-death\">a month after Hall shot and killed\u003c/a> Wilson, a 32-year-old man who was homeless and suffering from depression. Hall was never charged with the death of Wilson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leong and around a dozen supporters rallied ahead of Thursday’s hearing outside the A.F. 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It’s not a day to celebrate. It’s one part in this journey that’s been in the interest of justice and fairness and objectivity,” Bella Quinto Collins, the sister of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986351/family-of-man-suffocated-by-antioch-police-restraint-to-get-7-5-million-settlement\">Angelo Quinto, who Antioch police officers killed in 2020\u003c/a>, told KQED after the hearing. “It was extremely entitled of Hall, who has been remorseless from the get-go, to even request an early release from a parole that was only two years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arboleda had led officers on a nine-minute-long car chase on Nov. 3, 2018, before Hall arrived on scene and attempted to block Arboleda’s car at the intersection of Diablo and Front streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall got out of his car and stepped in front of Arboleda’s car before firing into the windshield, according to footage from a police car’s dashcam. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton said, “given the severity of the offense and its impact on the community,” that her office opposed Hall’s request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office remains steadfast in its commitment to protecting victims’ rights and ensuring justice for the Arboleda family and the community at large,” Becton said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall was initially charged with assault with a deadly weapon and voluntary manslaughter. But the voluntary manslaughter charge was dismissed after the jury deadlocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall’s early release from prison months ago also drew criticism from Leong, sparking a similar rally outside the Sheriff’s Office in Martinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in March said Hall had completed his prison sentence after earning credits for good behavior and participation in rehabilitative programs. Leong, who was notified by the CDCR’s Office of Victim and Survivor Rights and Services of the release that month, later only learned Hall had been released that morning by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon Hall’s release, Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston, who’s backed Hall since he was first charged in Arboleda’s death, said Hall “never should have been in prison in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">\u003cem>Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Prosecutors and family members of Kathleen Noble said Monday that they will fight parole suitability for the man convicted of her 1989 murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-mateo-county\">San Mateo County\u003c/a> District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe told KQED that Mark Hensley, 55, still constitutes a risk to public safety 23 years after his conviction. Hensley was found suitable for parole on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case went unsolved for 10 years until Noble’s family asked the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office to reopen it, said Wagstaffe, who has a framed photo of Noble in his office — a gift from her family, for obtaining a guilty verdict in 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noble’s bludgeoned body was found in her car in East Palo Alto on March 5, 1989, more than a week after the 23-year-old was reported missing by her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suspicion fell strongly on Hensley, Noble’s 19-year-old co-worker and roommate. In his interview with East Palo Alto police, he kept changing his story about whether Noble had come home to their shared apartment on the night she went missing, Wagstaffe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But soon after, the investigation went cold, as a huge volume of other cases strained the “barebones staff” of East Palo Alto police, Wagstaffe said. In a flood of 18 other murders in the small city that year, Noble’s case drifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045700\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-021-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-021-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-021-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-021-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department squad car is seen in Redwood City, California, on Dec. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, 10 years after the murder, San Mateo County Sheriff Don Horsley received a letter from Noble’s parents asking for the case to be reopened, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.rwcpulse.com/blogs/from-the-crime-files/2022/06/16/blog-slow-justice-for-kathleen-noble/\">Redwood City Pulse\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such a poignant letter,” Horsley told the true crime television show \u003ca href=\"https://www.oxygen.com/murdered-by-morning/crime-news/kathleen-noble-mark-hensley-killer-cold-case\">\u003cem>Murdered by Morning\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, “that I thought we should reinvestigate it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Significant pieces of evidence from the 1989 investigation into Noble’s death were missing — including police reports, witness interviews and a polygraph taken by Noble’s boyfriend, with whom she reportedly quarreled shortly before her death, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mv-voice.com/crime/2025/08/04/man-convicted-of-1989-mountain-view-murder-found-suitable-for-parole/\">Bay City News\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It appeared clear to investigators, however, from blood in and around the apartment, that Noble was killed there. With no forced entry and Hensley holding the only other key to the apartment, he became a prime suspect.[aside postID=news_12050640 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250801-BERKELEY-OSHA-DEATH-MD-05-KQED.jpg']“It was a thorough reexamination,” Wagstaffe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hensley, who had moved to Virginia but was originally from Los Altos Hills, was arrested on Dec. 20, 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors argued that Hensley made romantic overtures to Noble, which were rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He made an effort one night to get romantic with her, to get physical with her. She declined it and he beat her to death,” Wagstaffe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Wagstaffe, the jurors were most impressed by the testimony of Dana Margulies, Hensley’s ex-fiancée in Virginia. She told the court that Hensley choked her “almost to unconsciousness” when she broke up with him, several years after Noble’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her graphic testimony, plus circumstantial evidence, clinched a guilty verdict of first-degree murder and a sentence of 25 years to life. Hensley \u003ca href=\"https://www.rwcpulse.com/blogs/from-the-crime-files/2022/06/16/blog-slow-justice-for-kathleen-noble/\">successfully appealed\u003c/a> and changed the conviction to second-degree murder, with a sentence of 15 years to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hensley appeared to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2009/10/29/murderer-deemed-not-suitable-for-parole/\">admit responsibility\u003c/a> for Noble’s death in 2016, when he told a parole board that he hit his roommate with a champagne bottle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Thursday parole hearing was attended by Noble’s sister and two brothers, all of whom strongly opposed his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Noble, Kathleen’s twin brother, who did not attend the hearing, said the news was both a “painful shock” but something the family also expected, after attending multiple parole hearings over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a cold case,” he told KQED. “He had 10 years of freedom. That time should be added onto his sentence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe said the parole board considered the Youthful Offender Law and the Elder Parole Law, which allows for early parole consideration for people 50 or older who have served 20 or more years of their sentence. The board also noted that Hensley had not had any recent rule violations at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center state prison, ultimately finding him suitable for release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data released by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in 2019 showed that people 55 and older make up about \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2021/11/201912_DataPoints.pdf\">16% of California’s incarcerated population\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On average, it costs California a little more than \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/policyareas/cj/6_cj_inmatecost\">$106,000 per year\u003c/a> to keep someone in prison, according to the state Legislative Analyst’s Office. While the agency doesn’t track expenses by age group, the nonpartisan office \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/crimjust/2010/Elderly_Inmates_05_11_10.pdf\">reported\u003c/a> that in other states, it can cost two to three times more to incarcerate an older person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su Kim, senior policy manager for parole justice nonprofit UnCommon Law, said elderly parole has been successful “in releasing elderly people who do not pose a danger and reducing exorbitant incarceration costs, all without any trade-off in public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim cited \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2024/11/FY-2018-19-BPH-Supplemental-Recidivism-Report.pdf\">a CDCR report\u003c/a> that showed an elderly parole recidivism rate of just 2.4%, and less than 1% for crimes against a person — 20 times lower than the overall CDCR recidivism rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If parole consideration is concerned primarily with public safety,” Kim said, “then advanced age absolutely needs to be taken into consideration given the indisputable evidence that people age out of crime and violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a murder conviction, Hensley’s case must now go through an administrative review and then must be approved or reversed by Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2:24 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County’s district attorney is blaming her predecessor for policies that she said led to the February release of a man now charged with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048706/california-parole-officer-is-shot-killed-in-east-oakland-office-building\">killing a state parole agent\u003c/a> in Oakland last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan Keith Hall, who was arrested in the fatal shooting of agent Joshua Lemont Byrd at the Division of Adult Parole Operations office in East Oakland on Thursday, faces a first-degree murder charge in the killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall had been on parole in Oakland since early this year after pleading no contest to assault with a deadly weapon for a random stabbing near Lake Merritt in 2022. As part of a plea deal, other charges associated with the attack, including an attempted murder charge and multiple enhancements for repeat offenses, were dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson said Monday that a special directive put in place by her predecessor, Pamela Price — a progressive prosecutor who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017506/these-maps-show-where-pamela-price-lost-the-most-support-from-voters-in-the-recall-election\">recalled last Novembe\u003c/a>\u003cu>r\u003c/u> — prevented the office from considering charge enhancements in Hall’s plea negotiations, including one for great bodily harm and another for his previous felony convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could not use those strikes as it relates to any plea bargaining without permission from the prior administration,” she told reporters ahead of Hall’s arraignment. “There was a plea taken in January of 2025 while that directive was still in place, and sentencing occurred on February 7, 2025, again, while that directive was still in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049206\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/EBT-L-HALLCHARGE-0721-01-scaled-e1753214975639.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryan Keith Hall, who is suspected of opening fire on state parole agent Joshua Lemont Byrd at the Division of Adult Parole Operations office in East Oakland last Thursday. \u003ccite>(Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25038309-special-directive-23-01/\">The directive\u003c/a>, which aimed to decrease prison sentences in favor of alternatives to incarceration, was one of Price’s first major policy shifts after taking office in 2023. The policy said that in most instances, “prosecutors shall not file or require defendants to plead to sentence enhancements or other sentencing allegations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first order of business when I came to this office was to get rid of that directive,” Jones Dickson said. \u003ca href=\"https://substack.com/home/post/p-157524235?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web\">She did so\u003c/a> the day after her inauguration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement issued earlier Monday, Price said the plea was negotiated under the administration of Jones Dickson, who was sworn in on Feb. 18, and called the blame placed on her administration “disinformation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Hall’s crime took place before I was in the office and his negotiated plea deal was made after I left office,” she wrote.[aside postID=news_12048706 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OAKLAND-POLICE-DEPARTMENT-MD-01_qed.jpg']According to Price, the plea decision was made by an attorney in Jones Dickson’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall was paroled immediately after his sentencing, nearly two weeks before Jones Dickson took office, because he had completed the maximum sentence for the crime in county jail, awaiting his conviction, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an evidentiary hearing in the stabbing case in November, Hall’s public defender told the court they believed his attack against that victim was likely “driven by some sort of mental health issues” based on testimony about his behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After initially refusing to appear for his Monday morning arraignment in the shooting case, Hall appeared for a rescheduled arraignment at 2 p.m. but declined to enter a plea. He is currently being held at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin without bail. His arraignment is now set for Aug. 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to charging documents, the shooting occurred after Hall entered the parole office around 12:40 p.m. Thursday and was told to leave because his parole officer was not there. He had missed a scheduled meeting there with his officer the previous day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 12:50 p.m., Byrd was shot. Minutes later, a witness saw Hall leaving the building with a firearm, the charging documents allege. Video footage shows Hall running outside the building before boarding an Alameda County transit bus. He is believed to have committed a robbery on the bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049052\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250721-PAROLESHOOTINGSUSPECT_00912_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250721-PAROLESHOOTINGSUSPECT_00912_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250721-PAROLESHOOTINGSUSPECT_00912_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250721-PAROLESHOOTINGSUSPECT_00912_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Handwritten notes indicate that The CDCR Division of Adult Parole Operations office is closed in Oakland on July 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Department officers found Hall and arrested him hours later near 90th Avenue and International Boulevard, about two miles from the parole office. In a nearby dumpster, they found a firearm and an orange safety jacket that they said Hall was seen stripping off as he fled, according to doorbell camera footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Byrd, 40, died of his injuries after being immediately transferred to a hospital, marking the first line-of-duty death of an officer in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation since 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how Hall was able to bring a firearm into the office, which serves as a common meeting space for parolees and their officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR declined KQED’s request for comment on its security protocols at the site, citing safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Including the 2022 stabbing, Hall has 10 prior felony convictions in California dating back to 1996. They include assault, second-degree robbery, evading police and illegally possessing a firearm as a felon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, he was convicted of illegally taking a vehicle in Contra Costa County. Court records show that while paroled following that conviction, he had his release revoked twice because of parole violations, first in November 2015 and again in April the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR said Byrd was not Hall’s parole officer. It’s unclear if they had a relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Byrd had only joined the Oakland office in October, after 10 years in other roles within CDCR, including as a correctional officer and sergeant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Lt. Gov. 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The company, which is also a contractor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, has come under fire over its facility at 111 Taylor St., which holds a place in LGBTQ history as the site of a 1966 riot for trans rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This company runs ICE detention facilities for the Trump administration across the country,” Mahmood told KQED. “If someone is describing a private facility in S.F. as worse than a prison, we want to know what’s going on there. … We want to know how they are operating a facility in our own backyard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push comes after Melvin Bulauan was found dead on the street in the Tenderloin on July 14, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/for-the-dad-who-never-stopped-trying\">GoFundMe organized by his family\u003c/a>. 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Mahmood, who oversees the Tenderloin, will call for the probe into Geo Group at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said he plans to subpoena representatives from Geo Group and ask about living conditions at the 111 Taylor facility, including reports of civil rights violations. City officials believe it would be the company’s first such hearing before an elected municipal body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisor said his office is also planning to ask about Geo Group’s interactions with the federal government in its detention of immigrants amid escalating ICE raids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After last week’s packed, five-hour hearing, the Board of Appeals upheld Geo Group’s use of 111 Taylor despite activists’ push to use zoning law to oust the private prison corporation.[aside postID=news_12048631 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Lurie_3.jpg']The building at the corner of Turk and Taylor streets was formerly a diner called Gene Compton’s Cafeteria, frequented by women, queer and trans people. It has become known as a birthplace of transgender resistance after patrons fought back against a police raid at the diner, known as the Compton Cafeteria Riot — three years before a similar riot at Stonewall Inn in New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, 111 Taylor sits at the center of the city’s historic Transgender Cultural District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geo Group purchased the site in 1989 and has since operated it as a halfway house for people on parole. At the Board of Appeals hearing last week, dozens of speakers described the site as having “prison-like” conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His death is not an isolated tragedy, but part of a larger pattern of institutional failure,” said Anjru Jaezon de Leon, Bulauan’s son. “We do not want our father’s death to go unnoticed. We are seeking truth, accountability, and allies, especially those willing to speak out about the harmful conditions in and around 111 Taylor St. and help us demand better for families like ours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press release, the family said that when they contacted Bulauan’s parole officer at Geo Group after identifying his body, the officer claimed to have no knowledge that their father had left the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11883912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Not-One-More-Girl-_53_MJA_04022021-scaled-e1753208640930.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santana Tapia, with the Not One More Girl campaign and co-founder of Fluid Coffee and Events\u003cbr>(center) at the launch of BART’s Not One More Girl Campaign. \u003ccite>(Maria J. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]L[/dropcap]ance Gonzalez spent months planning with his wife where to go for breakfast on June 26, the day he was scheduled to be released from Ironwood State Prison after 16 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez and his wife, Cristal, were deciding between iHop or Denny’s in Palm Springs, roughly 100 miles from the prison. It didn’t matter to Gonzalez where they ate because he’d be with his two teenage daughters and Cristal, his wife of five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After breakfast, the family was going to drive home to Los Angeles, where Gonzalez, 38, dreamed of starting a nonprofit organization to help at-risk youth. He would teach them how to build confidence and empathy, skills he developed over a decade through courses he took in prison. In L.A., he was going to take care of his aging parents. He and Cristal, who he’s known since he was 13, wanted to renew their vows, have more kids and build generational wealth, Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His stomach dropped when he learned his dreams would have to be put on hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an attempt to unwind \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11114572/jerry-brown-pushes-earlier-release-of-felons-under-proposition-57\">Proposition 57\u003c/a>, a 2016 voter-approved ballot measure aimed to incentivize rehabilitation, promote public safety and reduce prison overcrowding, a lawsuit filed against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation halted his release. Gonzalez is one of at least 100 people whose release date has been delayed as CDCR’s credit-earning regulations are disputed, according to court records. The regulations were challenged by the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, a public interest law organization that filed the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 29, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Jennifer Rockwell ordered CDCR not to release many people serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole who had earned a slim chance to go home, including Gonzalez. CDCR appealed the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Gonzalez, who was sentenced to 21 years to life, said he likely won’t have breakfast with his family until 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez said he learned about Rockwell’s order from a friend who was scheduled to be released days before him. The friend, who had family waiting outside the gates of the prison in Blythe, CA, had already changed into his civilian clothes. He was taken back to his cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when Gonzalez understood that it would be years — not days — before he’d be reunited with his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the equivalent to the loss of a loved one,” Gonzalez, a Mexican American, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court order has a far-reaching impact on people serving life sentences with the possibility of parole. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sentencingproject.org/app/uploads/2022/08/No-End-in-Sight-Americas-Enduring-Reliance-on-Life-Imprisonment.pdf\">2021 report by The Sentencing Project\u003c/a>, a research and advocacy center, roughly one-third of California’s prison population is serving life sentences with the possibility of parole. The majority of those 34,000 incarcerated are Black or Latinx.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, the court order punishes the people who have done the most to rehabilitate,” Heather MacKay, an attorney at the Prison Law Office, a Berkeley-based nonprofit that advocates for policy and law changes, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her concern was echoed by other legal experts who spoke with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This order is affecting the people who are actually the safest to release,” said Heidi Rummel, director of the Post-Conviction Justice Project at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25059572/2023-significant-events-for-publication-032024.pdf\">2023 report by the Board of Parole Hearings\u003c/a>, roughly 5,200 people serving a life sentence were granted parole between 2011 and 2019. Recidivism rates are less than 3% within three years of release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reporting this story, KQED spoke with five people impacted by the order. Some said they received letters from CDCR that they weren’t being released. Others, like Gonzalez, heard through word of mouth. Each person said they were devastated and confused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001658\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-564030163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2200\" height=\"1337\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-564030163.jpg 2200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-564030163-800x486.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-564030163-1020x620.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-564030163-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-564030163-1536x933.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-564030163-2048x1245.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-564030163-1920x1167.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2200px) 100vw, 2200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beds fill a gymnasium converted into a temporary ’emergency’ sleeping area at California State Prison, Los Angeles County, in 2007. Voters passed Proposition 57 in 2016 in part to reduce prison overcrowding like this. \u003ccite>(Spencer Weiner/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In an Aug. 9 statement to KQED, Mary Xjimenez, a CDCR’s spokesperson, said, “Prop. 57 created a durable solution to reduce the prison population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under Prop. 57, CDCR has the constitutional authority to make credit changes to encourage incarcerated people to more actively participate in rehabilitative and educational programming as well as to sustain good behavior,” she wrote in the statement. “This is a critical incentive and a powerful tool to promote public safety by increasing the likelihood that incarcerated people will reenter successfully into our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to CDCR, roughly 100 people are granted parole every month. Of those, the agency anticipates roughly 20 people per month will be impacted by the court order.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I’ve worked tremendously hard to change the person who I am’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez grew up in a low-income neighborhood in East Los Angeles. From third grade until high school, he played sports, including basketball, football and baseball. But at 16, he said he joined a gang. After high school, he attended community college to pursue a degree in criminal justice, hoping to find work in a juvenile hall when he graduated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, when Gonzalez was 22, he and a friend, Jessie Ramirez, went to a house party. According to court records, they were asked to leave but refused. Gonzalez argued with partygoers. He struck someone in the face with a bottle and a brawl ensued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez and Ramirez ran from the house. On their way out, according to court records, Ramirez shot and injured three people, one of whom was paralyzed from the waist down. Gonzalez was arrested and charged with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon. In 2011, he was sentenced to 96 years to life in prison. The sentence was reduced to 21 years to life on appeal, Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After sentencing, Gonzalez’s earliest date to be considered for release by the parole board was 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Proposition 57 passed, and the California constitution was amended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was divided into three distinct components. The first component gave discretion to juvenile court judges, rather than district attorneys, regarding whether youth could be tried in an adult court. The second created a parole consideration process for people who committed a nonviolent crime, and the third gave CDCR “authority to award credits to inmates for good behavior and approved rehabilitative or educational achievements,” according to the amended state constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Proposition 57 passed, CDCR updated its regulations through a regulatory process that expanded credit-earning opportunities for most incarcerated people, including those serving life sentences. In December 2018, the regulations were further revised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez was eligible to earn more credits, which allowed him to have an earlier parole board hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I found out that they were changing laws, it felt liberating,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11999300]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he poured hundreds of hours into self-help groups, including courses on victim impact and cognitive behavior. He led groups on coping mechanisms and overcoming adversity, and he earned seven associate degrees, as well as good conduct credits. On top of that, he worked as a peer literacy mentor and masonry technician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I owe it to my victims,” Gonzalez said. “That’s why I’ve worked tremendously hard to change the person who I am today. It’s been an ever-evolving, everlasting journey of self-discovery and self-growth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The credits advanced his initial parole hearing by roughly five and a half years. In November 2023, Gonzalez appeared before the board with over 160 pages of handwritten notes, the sixth draft of his parole packet. In 2023, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QTUkpeajeUeXJLMqYSf56CRldcLTVAGj/view\">report\u003c/a> by the Board of Parole Hearings, of the 4,078 people who were scheduled for an initial parole hearing, only 10% were approved for release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez beat the odds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people don’t go home on their first parole suitability hearing,” Rummel said. “Some go home on their third. Some go home on their tenth. Some never go home. Some die in prison. So it’s not [that they’re] released under Prop. 57. It’s the ability to make their case to the board.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Blocking releases ‘A huge step in the wrong direction’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Steve Berinti was released from Valley State Prison about 10 months ago after serving 21 years. Since then, he has secured a job, moved into a one-bedroom apartment in the Bay Area and enrolled at San Francisco State University, where he’s pursuing a psychology degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berinti attributed much of his success to Proposition 57, which he said had a positive impact on prison culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prop. 57 decreased the violence and increased hope,” he said. “Once it started kicking in, the prison was almost like a college campus. Nothing else like this had ever happened before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he managed a packed schedule — working prison jobs, attending classes and self-help groups — all of which motivated him to invest in living a life with purpose and honor those he had harmed. Berinti, who was sentenced to 25 years to life, earned enough credits to advance his initial parole hearing by roughly four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made transitioning into parole life so much easier,” Berinti, 47, said. “I feel like I started to live free while I was incarcerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he learned about the court order blocking the release of people like Gonzalez, he said his heart sank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge step in the wrong direction,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11934758]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Criminal Justice Legal Foundation filed its lawsuit in January 2022. It’s had the effect of stalling part of Proposition 57’s promise to reduce overcrowding, which has been driven by decades of harsh sentencing in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CJLF’s board includes former Republican California Gov. Pete Wilson, who signed the “three strikes” law in 1994. It is one of California’s most significant sentencing laws, which disproportionately harms Black and brown families and communities. According to Stanford University’s Three Strikes Project, more than 45% of people serving life sentences under the Three Strikes law are Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kent Scheidegger, legal director of CJLF, previously served as chairman for the Criminal Law and Procedure Practice Group of the Federalist Society, an organization that describes itself as “a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Conservative groups have been trying to fight back at all of the criminal justice reform that’s happened in the last 10 years in California and this is part of that,” MacKay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent interview with KQED, Scheidegger, who led the lawsuit against CDCR, said that the agency’s regulations hurt crime victims and contradict the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The result of this is to put a lot more criminals back on the street and shorten their sentences to considerably less than what they deserve,” Scheidegger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges that CDCR was using “dictatorial power to abrogate statutes and even constitutional provisions by mere regulation,” including overriding laws that limit credit earning for people serving life sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys representing the state of California and CDCR pushed back in court filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The intent of the [Prop. 57] constitutional amendment is to grant CDCR broad authority to issue credit-earning regulations,” attorneys for the state Department of Justice wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, to achieve its duties set forth by Proposition 57, the agency has argued that it has the discretion to award and apply credits in a way it sees fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rockwell was not convinced. In December 2023, she ruled that CDCR has no authority to advance parole eligibility for lifers based on credits earned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her ruling, Rockwell said CDCR’s regulations couldn’t trump an older statute that limits the application of credits for lifers. She also wrote that neither the text of Proposition 57 nor the ballot materials discuss the application of credits for lifers, specifically. As such, she “[could not] conclude” that voters intended to give CDCR the authority it claimed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacKay and two other legal experts interviewed by KQED said the ruling was flawed. Specifically, they believe Rockwell curbed CDCR’s discretion by conflating language directed at the nonviolent parole component of Proposition 57 with the credit-earning component, which, according to the state constitution, gave CDCR “authority to award credits” despite existing laws. MacKay said those components are “completely separate clauses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the judge overreached beyond either the language of Prop. 57 or whatever’s possible to discern from the voters’ intent from the ballot materials, which is always a tricky undertaking,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR appealed the case in January. Until the current litigation is resolved, the agency said it is required to advance parole hearings for lifers who have earned Proposition 57 credits. But even if they are found suitable for release, CDCR’s hands are shackled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Rummel, the court’s decision involves major constitutional questions that the 3rd District Court of Appeal will have to address, a process that could take up to two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By continuing to incarcerate people who have been determined not to pose a danger and fall within the lowest risk of recidivism is to contradict what the electorate was choosing when they voted for Prop. 57,” Rummel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith Wattley, the founder and executive director of Uncommon Law, an Oakland-based law firm, called the ruling an insult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a horrible decision that is devastating to incarcerated people and their families who have worked very hard under extremely difficult circumstances to change their lives and demonstrate their readiness to return to the community,” he said. “It is an insult to the ‘California Model,’ which is supposed to recognize and reward the kinds of personal transformation being dismissed with this ruling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='cdcr']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 29, over 250 legal advocates and organizations called on Gov. Gavin Newsom, CDCR Secretary Jeff Macomber and Board of Parole Hearings Executive Officer Jennifer Shaffer to exercise their authority to release people like Gonzalez. The letter noted the financial implication of the court order, estimating that it would cost the state more than $13 million per year to continue incarcerating people impacted by the court order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the face of a severe budget crisis that threatens critical resources and social services for Californians, it is unacceptable to incur such exorbitant costs to keep incarcerating people who the parole board has found no longer pose a threat to public safety and can be safely released,” advocates wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez said it’s difficult to keep moving forward. He packed up everything in his prison cell while preparing for his release — the photos of his wife and children, cutouts of cars and pictures of successful people, what he referred to as his “manifestation chart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walls are empty now, save the calendar he looks at every morning when he wakes up. It’s a reminder of the days he would have been free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to start my new life,” he said. “I’m always going to be making amends for what I did. I know nothing is deserved, but I do feel strongly that I earned at least a chance to go back out into society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://caylamihalovich.com/\">Cayla Mihalovich\u003c/a> is a post-graduate fellow at the Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. For KQED, she has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982828/forced-sterilization-survivors-undertake-own-healing-after-feeling-silenced-again-by-state\">reported\u003c/a> on California’s implementation of a 2021 reparations law intended to make amends for a shameful chapter of the state’s history.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 29, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Jennifer Rockwell ordered CDCR not to release many people serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole who had earned a slim chance to go home, including Gonzalez. CDCR appealed the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Gonzalez, who was sentenced to 21 years to life, said he likely won’t have breakfast with his family until 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez said he learned about Rockwell’s order from a friend who was scheduled to be released days before him. The friend, who had family waiting outside the gates of the prison in Blythe, CA, had already changed into his civilian clothes. He was taken back to his cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when Gonzalez understood that it would be years — not days — before he’d be reunited with his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the equivalent to the loss of a loved one,” Gonzalez, a Mexican American, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court order has a far-reaching impact on people serving life sentences with the possibility of parole. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sentencingproject.org/app/uploads/2022/08/No-End-in-Sight-Americas-Enduring-Reliance-on-Life-Imprisonment.pdf\">2021 report by The Sentencing Project\u003c/a>, a research and advocacy center, roughly one-third of California’s prison population is serving life sentences with the possibility of parole. The majority of those 34,000 incarcerated are Black or Latinx.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, the court order punishes the people who have done the most to rehabilitate,” Heather MacKay, an attorney at the Prison Law Office, a Berkeley-based nonprofit that advocates for policy and law changes, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her concern was echoed by other legal experts who spoke with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This order is affecting the people who are actually the safest to release,” said Heidi Rummel, director of the Post-Conviction Justice Project at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25059572/2023-significant-events-for-publication-032024.pdf\">2023 report by the Board of Parole Hearings\u003c/a>, roughly 5,200 people serving a life sentence were granted parole between 2011 and 2019. Recidivism rates are less than 3% within three years of release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reporting this story, KQED spoke with five people impacted by the order. Some said they received letters from CDCR that they weren’t being released. Others, like Gonzalez, heard through word of mouth. Each person said they were devastated and confused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001658\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-564030163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2200\" height=\"1337\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-564030163.jpg 2200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-564030163-800x486.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-564030163-1020x620.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-564030163-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-564030163-1536x933.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-564030163-2048x1245.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-564030163-1920x1167.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2200px) 100vw, 2200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beds fill a gymnasium converted into a temporary ’emergency’ sleeping area at California State Prison, Los Angeles County, in 2007. Voters passed Proposition 57 in 2016 in part to reduce prison overcrowding like this. \u003ccite>(Spencer Weiner/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In an Aug. 9 statement to KQED, Mary Xjimenez, a CDCR’s spokesperson, said, “Prop. 57 created a durable solution to reduce the prison population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under Prop. 57, CDCR has the constitutional authority to make credit changes to encourage incarcerated people to more actively participate in rehabilitative and educational programming as well as to sustain good behavior,” she wrote in the statement. “This is a critical incentive and a powerful tool to promote public safety by increasing the likelihood that incarcerated people will reenter successfully into our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to CDCR, roughly 100 people are granted parole every month. Of those, the agency anticipates roughly 20 people per month will be impacted by the court order.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I’ve worked tremendously hard to change the person who I am’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez grew up in a low-income neighborhood in East Los Angeles. From third grade until high school, he played sports, including basketball, football and baseball. But at 16, he said he joined a gang. After high school, he attended community college to pursue a degree in criminal justice, hoping to find work in a juvenile hall when he graduated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, when Gonzalez was 22, he and a friend, Jessie Ramirez, went to a house party. According to court records, they were asked to leave but refused. Gonzalez argued with partygoers. He struck someone in the face with a bottle and a brawl ensued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez and Ramirez ran from the house. On their way out, according to court records, Ramirez shot and injured three people, one of whom was paralyzed from the waist down. Gonzalez was arrested and charged with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon. In 2011, he was sentenced to 96 years to life in prison. The sentence was reduced to 21 years to life on appeal, Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After sentencing, Gonzalez’s earliest date to be considered for release by the parole board was 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Proposition 57 passed, and the California constitution was amended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was divided into three distinct components. The first component gave discretion to juvenile court judges, rather than district attorneys, regarding whether youth could be tried in an adult court. The second created a parole consideration process for people who committed a nonviolent crime, and the third gave CDCR “authority to award credits to inmates for good behavior and approved rehabilitative or educational achievements,” according to the amended state constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Proposition 57 passed, CDCR updated its regulations through a regulatory process that expanded credit-earning opportunities for most incarcerated people, including those serving life sentences. In December 2018, the regulations were further revised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez was eligible to earn more credits, which allowed him to have an earlier parole board hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I found out that they were changing laws, it felt liberating,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he poured hundreds of hours into self-help groups, including courses on victim impact and cognitive behavior. He led groups on coping mechanisms and overcoming adversity, and he earned seven associate degrees, as well as good conduct credits. On top of that, he worked as a peer literacy mentor and masonry technician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I owe it to my victims,” Gonzalez said. “That’s why I’ve worked tremendously hard to change the person who I am today. It’s been an ever-evolving, everlasting journey of self-discovery and self-growth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The credits advanced his initial parole hearing by roughly five and a half years. In November 2023, Gonzalez appeared before the board with over 160 pages of handwritten notes, the sixth draft of his parole packet. In 2023, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QTUkpeajeUeXJLMqYSf56CRldcLTVAGj/view\">report\u003c/a> by the Board of Parole Hearings, of the 4,078 people who were scheduled for an initial parole hearing, only 10% were approved for release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez beat the odds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people don’t go home on their first parole suitability hearing,” Rummel said. “Some go home on their third. Some go home on their tenth. Some never go home. Some die in prison. So it’s not [that they’re] released under Prop. 57. It’s the ability to make their case to the board.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Blocking releases ‘A huge step in the wrong direction’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Steve Berinti was released from Valley State Prison about 10 months ago after serving 21 years. Since then, he has secured a job, moved into a one-bedroom apartment in the Bay Area and enrolled at San Francisco State University, where he’s pursuing a psychology degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berinti attributed much of his success to Proposition 57, which he said had a positive impact on prison culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prop. 57 decreased the violence and increased hope,” he said. “Once it started kicking in, the prison was almost like a college campus. Nothing else like this had ever happened before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he managed a packed schedule — working prison jobs, attending classes and self-help groups — all of which motivated him to invest in living a life with purpose and honor those he had harmed. Berinti, who was sentenced to 25 years to life, earned enough credits to advance his initial parole hearing by roughly four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made transitioning into parole life so much easier,” Berinti, 47, said. “I feel like I started to live free while I was incarcerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he learned about the court order blocking the release of people like Gonzalez, he said his heart sank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge step in the wrong direction,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Criminal Justice Legal Foundation filed its lawsuit in January 2022. It’s had the effect of stalling part of Proposition 57’s promise to reduce overcrowding, which has been driven by decades of harsh sentencing in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CJLF’s board includes former Republican California Gov. Pete Wilson, who signed the “three strikes” law in 1994. It is one of California’s most significant sentencing laws, which disproportionately harms Black and brown families and communities. According to Stanford University’s Three Strikes Project, more than 45% of people serving life sentences under the Three Strikes law are Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kent Scheidegger, legal director of CJLF, previously served as chairman for the Criminal Law and Procedure Practice Group of the Federalist Society, an organization that describes itself as “a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Conservative groups have been trying to fight back at all of the criminal justice reform that’s happened in the last 10 years in California and this is part of that,” MacKay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent interview with KQED, Scheidegger, who led the lawsuit against CDCR, said that the agency’s regulations hurt crime victims and contradict the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The result of this is to put a lot more criminals back on the street and shorten their sentences to considerably less than what they deserve,” Scheidegger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges that CDCR was using “dictatorial power to abrogate statutes and even constitutional provisions by mere regulation,” including overriding laws that limit credit earning for people serving life sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys representing the state of California and CDCR pushed back in court filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The intent of the [Prop. 57] constitutional amendment is to grant CDCR broad authority to issue credit-earning regulations,” attorneys for the state Department of Justice wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, to achieve its duties set forth by Proposition 57, the agency has argued that it has the discretion to award and apply credits in a way it sees fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rockwell was not convinced. In December 2023, she ruled that CDCR has no authority to advance parole eligibility for lifers based on credits earned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her ruling, Rockwell said CDCR’s regulations couldn’t trump an older statute that limits the application of credits for lifers. She also wrote that neither the text of Proposition 57 nor the ballot materials discuss the application of credits for lifers, specifically. As such, she “[could not] conclude” that voters intended to give CDCR the authority it claimed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacKay and two other legal experts interviewed by KQED said the ruling was flawed. Specifically, they believe Rockwell curbed CDCR’s discretion by conflating language directed at the nonviolent parole component of Proposition 57 with the credit-earning component, which, according to the state constitution, gave CDCR “authority to award credits” despite existing laws. MacKay said those components are “completely separate clauses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the judge overreached beyond either the language of Prop. 57 or whatever’s possible to discern from the voters’ intent from the ballot materials, which is always a tricky undertaking,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR appealed the case in January. Until the current litigation is resolved, the agency said it is required to advance parole hearings for lifers who have earned Proposition 57 credits. But even if they are found suitable for release, CDCR’s hands are shackled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Rummel, the court’s decision involves major constitutional questions that the 3rd District Court of Appeal will have to address, a process that could take up to two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By continuing to incarcerate people who have been determined not to pose a danger and fall within the lowest risk of recidivism is to contradict what the electorate was choosing when they voted for Prop. 57,” Rummel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith Wattley, the founder and executive director of Uncommon Law, an Oakland-based law firm, called the ruling an insult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a horrible decision that is devastating to incarcerated people and their families who have worked very hard under extremely difficult circumstances to change their lives and demonstrate their readiness to return to the community,” he said. “It is an insult to the ‘California Model,’ which is supposed to recognize and reward the kinds of personal transformation being dismissed with this ruling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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