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"content": "\u003cp>When 47-year-old Edward Vega arrived in jail, he couldn’t quiet the voices in his head. He felt paranoid, as though he was losing control. “I knew if I didn’t get my medication, I was going to hurt someone,” says Vega.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was right. A week after being arrested for alleged drug possession, Vega says, he assaulted a fellow inmate and ended up in isolation, which only made him feel worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, a doctor prescribed medicines that Vega says helped. He’d been taking them on the outside until he ran out — just before he was arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The medication hasn’t totally taken away the voices, but I am able to differentiate reality from fiction,” says Vega, who was released three months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of inmates in California who’ve been prescribed psychiatric drugs has jumped about 25 percent in five years, according to a recent \u003ca href=\"http://calhps.com/reports/PolicyBrief_PsychotropicMedications_CalHPS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysis\u003c/a> of state data. These inmates now account for about a fifth of the county jail population across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increase might be a reflection of the growing number of inmates with mental illness, though it also might stem from better identification of people in need of treatment, say researchers from \u003ca href=\"http://calhps.com/reports/PolicyBrief_PsychotropicMedications_CalHPS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Health Policy Strategies\u003c/a>, a Sacramento-based consulting firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/amid-shortage-psychiatric-beds-mentally-ill-face-long-waits-treatment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">severe shortage of psychiatric beds\u003c/a> and community-based treatment throughout the state and nation, jails have become repositories for people in the throes of acute mental health crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of people with mental illness in jails and prisons in the U.S. is “astronomical,” says \u003ca href=\"https://law.stanford.edu/directory/michael-romano/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Romano\u003c/a>, director of Three Strikes & Justice Advocacy Project at Stanford Law School, who was not involved in the research. “In many ways, the whole justice system is overwhelmed with mental illness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contributing to the problem in California is a 2011 federal court order, and a state decision a few years later, that had unintended consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More From KQED About Mental Illness in Jails\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11107949\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Realignment 5 Years On: Counties Build Jails for Inmates With Mental Illness\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11418506/judge-threatens-to-fine-california-prisons-for-delayed-mental-health-treatment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Judge Threatens to Fine California Prisons for Delayed Mental Health Treatment\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered California to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2011/05/23/136579580/california-is-ordered-to-cut-its-prison-population\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reduce\u003c/a> the prison population because of overcrowding that the judges said constituted cruel and unusual punishment. Three years later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/News/prop47.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a state proposition\u003c/a> reclassified some felony crimes as misdemeanors. Taken together, that led to a huge influx of offenders going to county jails instead of state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHPS analysis, based on survey data from 45 of California’s 58 counties, opens a window into how the largest state is coping with the influx.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think this is the first part of a more systematic discussion about what is going on in the jails and in the broader community with respect to mental health,” says \u003ca href=\"http://calhps.com/team_member/david-panush/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Panush\u003c/a>, a co-author of the report, which was funded in part by the California Health Care Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Far more people with mental illness are housed in jails and prisons than in psychiatric hospitals. Insufficient staff training and poor patient treatment have contributed to inmate suicides, self-mutilation, violence and other problems, say advocates for the mentally ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One oft-cited complaint is that inmates have poor access to psychiatric prescriptions to treat such conditions as schizophrenia, major depression and bipolar disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jail officials in California say they are trying to better identify incarcerated people who could benefit from such drugs. The numbers suggest the strategy may be working. According to the CHPS report, an average of 13,776 inmates in the 45 California counties were on psychotropic medications in 2016-2017, up from 10,999 five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the portion of inmates taking psychotropic medicine varies widely by county — from 8 percent in Glenn County to 32 percent in Sonoma and Napa, according to the analysis. The report is based on data from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bscc.ca.gov/m_bsccboard.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Board of State and Community Corrections\u003c/a>, an independent state agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles County, whose jails have been described as the largest mental institution in the country, about 30 percent of the roughly 18,000 inmates are mentally ill and most of those diagnosed are on medication, says Dr. Joseph Ortego, chief psychiatrist for correctional health services in L.A. County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although some still are missed in the screening process, he says, the county jails have improved identification and treatment of inmates and expanded staffing as part of the department’s 2015 settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice. The department had alleged inadequate mental health care and suicide prevention in the jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, medications are likely under-prescribed in jails, psychiatrists say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need enough mental health professionals to treat the very large numbers of mentally ill people in jails,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Harry_Lamb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. H. 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Those who are homeless frequently get charged with panhandling, public urination and related crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to trying to improve treatment inside the jails, Los Angeles and San Diego county officials say they are working more closely with community organizations to ensure inmates with mental illness get the services they need after their release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vega says a local community group, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.neighborhoodhouse.org/#sthash.nTPgadqU.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neighborhood House Association\u003c/a>, was able to help in his case, ensuring he got his meds and other treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without the medication,” Vega says, “I would probably be right back in jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaiser Health News\u003c/a>\u003cem> is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increase might be a reflection of the growing number of inmates with mental illness, though it also might stem from better identification of people in need of treatment, say researchers from \u003ca href=\"http://calhps.com/reports/PolicyBrief_PsychotropicMedications_CalHPS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Health Policy Strategies\u003c/a>, a Sacramento-based consulting firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/amid-shortage-psychiatric-beds-mentally-ill-face-long-waits-treatment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">severe shortage of psychiatric beds\u003c/a> and community-based treatment throughout the state and nation, jails have become repositories for people in the throes of acute mental health crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of people with mental illness in jails and prisons in the U.S. is “astronomical,” says \u003ca href=\"https://law.stanford.edu/directory/michael-romano/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Romano\u003c/a>, director of Three Strikes & Justice Advocacy Project at Stanford Law School, who was not involved in the research. “In many ways, the whole justice system is overwhelmed with mental illness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contributing to the problem in California is a 2011 federal court order, and a state decision a few years later, that had unintended consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More From KQED About Mental Illness in Jails\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11107949\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Realignment 5 Years On: Counties Build Jails for Inmates With Mental Illness\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11418506/judge-threatens-to-fine-california-prisons-for-delayed-mental-health-treatment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Judge Threatens to Fine California Prisons for Delayed Mental Health Treatment\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered California to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2011/05/23/136579580/california-is-ordered-to-cut-its-prison-population\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reduce\u003c/a> the prison population because of overcrowding that the judges said constituted cruel and unusual punishment. 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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown wants to add millions in new spending on programs to help former inmates stay out of jail—a proposal generating bipartisan praise because of concern they are returning to prison in large numbers. But some say it still isn't enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed $50 million would expand job training for prisoners and assist them in finding jobs once they are released, such as training them to become firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s budget plan also includes $106 million for an existing incentive program that rewards counties for reducing recidivism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many supporters say California must invest more to ensure the state’s criminal justice overhaul—which reduced state prison overcrowding by transferring low-level offenders to county jails and local supervision—achieves its goal of keeping ex-inmates from returning to prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The old way of locking people up and throwing away the key clearly hasn’t worked. It’s just led to a lot of costs but not a lot of results,” said Assemblyman Phil Ting, a San Francisco Democrat who chairs the Assembly’s budget committee. But he wants to see more money spent on efforts to prevent people who’ve served their time from committing crimes again, although he declined to give a specific amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Ay62FJygo1DXjDEm0sTB26Fx7h751URL\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we would love to see this year is perhaps a longer-term investment that may actually help reduce the population because they’re not recidivating anymore,” he said. “It’s an area that we’ve talked a lot about, but I don’t think that we’ve done enough or taken a harder look at what’s working and what’s not working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most troubling evidence of what’s not working: Of some 36,000 \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Adult_Research_Branch/Research_Documents/2017-Outcome-Evaluation-Report.pdf\">state\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Adult_Research_Branch/Research_Documents/2017-Outcome-Evaluation-Report.pdf\"> inmates\u003c/a> released in the most recent year for which state data are available, 46 percent were convicted of crimes again within three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a very miserable number. It indicates that the efforts, as currently constituted, are not being as successful as they need to be,” said Assemblyman Tom Lackey, a Palmdale Republican. He said he was happy to see the governor proposing new spending on anti-recidivism efforts, but plans to introduce legislation to audit rehabilitation programs to determine which are successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11647152\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11647152\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Inmates have worked fighting many recent wildfires in California. \" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-1180x784.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmates have worked fighting many recent wildfires in California. \u003ccite>(California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Experts say it’s difficult to directly compare recidivism rates among states, but California’s rate is considered high, said Mia Bird, a research fellow at the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California. California’s state prison population is about 130,000. The state’s incarceration rate had been higher than the national average in the past, but it has \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/r-118mlr.pdf\">fallen sharply\u003c/a>: Last year California had 334 state inmates for every 100,000 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of that dramatic decline was driven by a policy known as realignment, which after 2011 assigned the responsibility for new offenders determined to be less serious from state prisons to local jails or back into the community under supervision. Lawmakers made that major switch in 2011 after federal courts ruled California prisons were too overcrowded to provide inmates adequate health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters promoted realignment as a way to keep former inmates from reoffending by shifting more responsibility to county officials, who theoretically would understand better than the state what programs their communities need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/r_1217mbr.pdf\">study\u003c/a> by Bird and her colleagues found realignment had mixed effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"t5aJeUpXsipBafy1hAPPPX4NVLzeb14M\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Recidivism rates didn’t change much after realignment, so everyone can breathe a sigh of relief that they didn’t go up dramatically,” Bird said. But she acknowledged that recidivism levels are still high and have been for a long time. “In the short run, we might need to spend a bit more money in order to have some long-run gains.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After realignment kicked in, voters approved two initiatives to further lower incarceration rates by reducing punishment for low-level offenders: Proposition 47 in 2014 and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/proposition-57-criminal-sentencing/\">Proposition 57\u003c/a> in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neither realignment nor the other changes have resulted in the crime reductions or savings supporters promised, said Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 47, which lessened penalties for lower-level crimes, including some types of theft and illegal drug use, “wreaked havoc” in California, she said, citing what she described as “rampant” and underreported retail theft as evidence the punishments under the law are too lenient to deter crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although realignment successfully reduced the state prison population, it also placed new strain on counties. They’ve received several billion dollars to cover the increased costs to house and supervise more people, but critics say it still isn’t enough to fund needed rehabilitative services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more resources,” Schubert said. “It’s not a cheap process to help get people back on track, but we have to be willing to invest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11647147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"819\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic.png 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic-160x238.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic-240x357.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic-375x558.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic-520x774.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown proposes to spend about $12 billion—9 percent of the state’s general fund—for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in the fiscal year that begins in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget includes more than $130 million to fix roofs, remove mold and update other aspects of aging infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it’s important for prison facilities to be maintained, money could be better spent on services for former inmates after they leave prison, said John Bauters of Californians for Safety and Justice, a group that advocates for criminal justice reform. The governor’s budget doesn’t make any “dramatic” changes to money spent on rehabilitation programs for inmates, which need to be matched by programs to help people when they re-enter society, Bauters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got so much money that is being spent right now on prison programs and the reality is that if we actually invest in proven prevention methods and rehabilitative programs, we won’t have the same need to spend that kind of money in the future,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer, who chairs the Assembly Public Safety Committee, also is advocating greater accountability—saying he’ll request a review of rehabilitation programs to ensure the state is investing in ones that work. The Los Angeles Democrat praised the investment in community incentives to lower recidivism rates, saying “I think it’s definitely going to be one of his legacy pieces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"YiAh5GAFkpZSz5lGEbraS4TXSwFdkZNR\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison reform has been a key goal of Brown’s throughout his current term as governor. He championed realignment and Proposition 57, which expands the portion of inmates eligible for parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been telling me for years that he really, really wanted to work on the overcrowding in our prisons,” Jones-Sawyer said. “He really felt for California to have one of the highest incarceration rates in the country, it really bothered him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have criticized Brown’s approach to policies as too soft on crime. Sen. 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It’s Brown’s final year in office and therefore his last chance to solidify the criminal justice policy changes he oversaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our hope is that we can find significant common ground in this area,” Ting said. “We want to ensure that every individual who’s in the system, we’re doing everything possible to work with them so they don’t come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sophia Bollag is a contributing writer to \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org\">\u003cem>CALmatters.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we would love to see this year is perhaps a longer-term investment that may actually help reduce the population because they’re not recidivating anymore,” he said. “It’s an area that we’ve talked a lot about, but I don’t think that we’ve done enough or taken a harder look at what’s working and what’s not working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most troubling evidence of what’s not working: Of some 36,000 \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Adult_Research_Branch/Research_Documents/2017-Outcome-Evaluation-Report.pdf\">state\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Adult_Research_Branch/Research_Documents/2017-Outcome-Evaluation-Report.pdf\"> inmates\u003c/a> released in the most recent year for which state data are available, 46 percent were convicted of crimes again within three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a very miserable number. It indicates that the efforts, as currently constituted, are not being as successful as they need to be,” said Assemblyman Tom Lackey, a Palmdale Republican. He said he was happy to see the governor proposing new spending on anti-recidivism efforts, but plans to introduce legislation to audit rehabilitation programs to determine which are successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11647152\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11647152\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Inmates have worked fighting many recent wildfires in California. \" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-1180x784.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmates have worked fighting many recent wildfires in California. \u003ccite>(California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Experts say it’s difficult to directly compare recidivism rates among states, but California’s rate is considered high, said Mia Bird, a research fellow at the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California. California’s state prison population is about 130,000. The state’s incarceration rate had been higher than the national average in the past, but it has \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/r-118mlr.pdf\">fallen sharply\u003c/a>: Last year California had 334 state inmates for every 100,000 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of that dramatic decline was driven by a policy known as realignment, which after 2011 assigned the responsibility for new offenders determined to be less serious from state prisons to local jails or back into the community under supervision. Lawmakers made that major switch in 2011 after federal courts ruled California prisons were too overcrowded to provide inmates adequate health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters promoted realignment as a way to keep former inmates from reoffending by shifting more responsibility to county officials, who theoretically would understand better than the state what programs their communities need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/r_1217mbr.pdf\">study\u003c/a> by Bird and her colleagues found realignment had mixed effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Recidivism rates didn’t change much after realignment, so everyone can breathe a sigh of relief that they didn’t go up dramatically,” Bird said. But she acknowledged that recidivism levels are still high and have been for a long time. “In the short run, we might need to spend a bit more money in order to have some long-run gains.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After realignment kicked in, voters approved two initiatives to further lower incarceration rates by reducing punishment for low-level offenders: Proposition 47 in 2014 and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/proposition-57-criminal-sentencing/\">Proposition 57\u003c/a> in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neither realignment nor the other changes have resulted in the crime reductions or savings supporters promised, said Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 47, which lessened penalties for lower-level crimes, including some types of theft and illegal drug use, “wreaked havoc” in California, she said, citing what she described as “rampant” and underreported retail theft as evidence the punishments under the law are too lenient to deter crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although realignment successfully reduced the state prison population, it also placed new strain on counties. They’ve received several billion dollars to cover the increased costs to house and supervise more people, but critics say it still isn’t enough to fund needed rehabilitative services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more resources,” Schubert said. “It’s not a cheap process to help get people back on track, but we have to be willing to invest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11647147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"819\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic.png 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic-160x238.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic-240x357.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic-375x558.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic-520x774.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown proposes to spend about $12 billion—9 percent of the state’s general fund—for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in the fiscal year that begins in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget includes more than $130 million to fix roofs, remove mold and update other aspects of aging infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it’s important for prison facilities to be maintained, money could be better spent on services for former inmates after they leave prison, said John Bauters of Californians for Safety and Justice, a group that advocates for criminal justice reform. The governor’s budget doesn’t make any “dramatic” changes to money spent on rehabilitation programs for inmates, which need to be matched by programs to help people when they re-enter society, Bauters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got so much money that is being spent right now on prison programs and the reality is that if we actually invest in proven prevention methods and rehabilitative programs, we won’t have the same need to spend that kind of money in the future,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer, who chairs the Assembly Public Safety Committee, also is advocating greater accountability—saying he’ll request a review of rehabilitation programs to ensure the state is investing in ones that work. 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"content": "\u003cp>Meghan Frederick says that after she began a process of gender reassignment five years ago, colleagues at the state prison where she works called her “freak” and “tranny” and locked her in a stairwell. The correctional officer \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article168993672.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is suing\u003c/a> the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for creating a hostile work environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am isolated by my peers and that is quite scary,” Frederick said. “Within a maximum-security prison we need and depend upon each other, my fellow officers, for support and camaraderie. And I seem to have lost that because of the transphobic environment that’s endemic within this institution and in this department overall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frederick, 53, started working in the California State Prison, Sacramento in 2002. Then in 2012, when she began transitioning from male to female, she says the intimidation and abuse started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each day going to work for Plaintiff became torture,” says Frederick’s complaint, filed in Sacramento County Superior Court on May 30. It charges harassment and discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison officials denied all of Frederick’s allegations in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3983246-Answer-Frederick-v-CDCR.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">response\u003c/a> filed on Friday. The department is asking the court to dismiss Frederick’s lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with verbal abuse, Frederick says both officers and supervisors fail to address her by the correct gender pronoun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am constantly mis-gendered by individuals that have known me for quite some time or whom I’ve corrected on a number of occasions,” she said. “They delegitimatize my female gender. 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She says she tried to get higher-ups at the prison to address the hostile work environment many times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a direct supervisor that told me that I was being overly sensitive,” she said. “And I find that very difficult to take because here’s my direct supervisor who’s charged with making sure the other officers adhere to our zero-tolerance policy stating that Officer Frederick is overly sensitive. It sort of gives a green light to the other officers to continue with their hateful discriminatory behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frederick’s lawyer, Robert Boucher, said issues like this point to a failure of culture within the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is also facing a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/17/prison-psychologist-sues-state-for-retaliation-after-reporting-mistreatment-of-lgbtq-prisoners/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal lawsuit\u003c/a> from a prison psychologist who said she faced retaliation after reporting mistreatment of gay and transgender inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey Callison, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections, wrote in an email that he cannot comment on pending litigation. But he pointed out the code of conduct for staff and inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>3005. Conduct. (a) Inmates and parolees shall obey all laws, regulations, and local procedures, and refrain from behavior which might lead to violence or disorder, or otherwise endangers facility, outside community or another person. (b) Obeying Orders. Inmates and parolees must promptly and courteously obey written and verbal orders and instructions from department staff, and from employees of other agencies with authorized responsibility for the custody and supervision of inmates and parolees.\u003cbr>\n3391. Employee Conduct. (a) Employees shall be alert, courteous, and professional in their dealings with inmates, parolees, fellow employees, visitors and members of the public. Inmates and parolees shall be addressed by their proper names, and never by derogatory or slang reference.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>While the California Department of Corrections has a workplace conduct policy that should have protected Frederick from harassment, Boucher said, some inmates and staff simply disregard it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11613813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11613813\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/fullsizeoutput_4cc-1-800x1067.jpeg\" alt=\"Correctional Officer Meghan Frederick in hiking gear.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/fullsizeoutput_4cc-1-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/fullsizeoutput_4cc-1-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/fullsizeoutput_4cc-1-1020x1361.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/fullsizeoutput_4cc-1-960x1281.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/fullsizeoutput_4cc-1-240x320.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/fullsizeoutput_4cc-1-375x500.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/fullsizeoutput_4cc-1-520x694.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/fullsizeoutput_4cc-1.jpeg 1084w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Correctional Officer Meghan Frederick in hiking gear. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Meghan Frederick)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In her [Frederick’s] case, all CDCR’s management, all the way up to the warden of that prison, their response to why didn’t you do anything to help my client was, ‘It’s not my job,’ ” Boucher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Management failed to discipline officers who mocked Frederick, according to the complaint, and in 2014 prison management failed to inform Frederick about threats to her life from inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the complaint:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The kite [note] expressly named Plaintiff and stated that Plaintiff was to be killed on the yard. 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Joseph)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though Common’s music has long carried political messages, his spokesman Michael Latt said policy advocacy is new. Common’s visits to state prisons this year -- where he performed for inmates and held conversations to learn more about their experiences -- are one piece of his effort to try to curb cycles of violence and incarceration, especially in the black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The advocacy grew out of Common’s work on the soundtrack to the 2014 film “Selma,” which tells the story of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. and the march he led to secure African-Americans the right to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really pushed me to a new level in wanting to do more,” Common said last year in a televised \u003ca href=\"http://www.cc.com/video-clips/kz9yjm/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-exclusive---common-extended-interview\">interview\u003c/a> with Trevor Noah of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, in which he described King as one of his heroes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to do that work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Common has long been known for songs that largely eschew the violence and misogyny of gangster rap in favor of messages with positive social messages. But his lyrics have not been controversy-free: Two years ago, a New Jersey college \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2015/04/01/common-gets-disinvited-from-new-jersey-universitys-commencement/?utm_term=.645862ede81e\">rescinded an invitation\u003c/a> for Common to speak at graduation after the state troopers’ association complained about an early song in which he praised a member of the revolutionary Black Panthers group who was convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper. In 2011, President Barack Obama faced criticism for the same reason when he invited Common to perform at the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, Common will be lobbying for two juvenile justice bills. \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB394\">Senate Bill 394\u003c/a> would give juvenile offenders a shot at parole after 25 years in prison, even if they were sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB395\">Senate Bill 395\u003c/a> would require that juveniles consult with an attorney before waiving their Miranda rights and answering questions from authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Jim Cooper, who spent 30 years in law enforcement before politics, said he’s not convinced the bill makes sense. Investigators want to interview suspects as soon as possible, he said, while the details of a crime are still fresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To actually have an attorney there takes time,” said Cooper, a Democrat from Elk Grove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He emphasized that he doesn’t yet have a formal position on the bill, and said he’s planning to meet with Common next week to hear him out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LorenaSGonzalez/status/866166798621605888\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Common joins a long list of celebrities that pop into the Capitol to pose for photos and try to sway decisions. Earlier this year, actress \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article126540799.html\">Lena Dunham advocated\u003c/a> for Planned Parenthood and reality TV star Dog the Bounty Hunter \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article145294029.html\">testified against\u003c/a> a bill to change the bail system. 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Jespersen is a genderqueer lesbian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges that CDCR staff and administrators created and allowed a hostile work environment and retaliated against Jespersen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman said in an email that the CDCR does not comment on pending litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison employees outed an inmate as transgender on social media, forced transgender prisoners to strip, prevented inmates from attending an LGBTQ support group and \"assisted prisoners in beating and otherwise abusing gay prisoners on the basis of their sexual orientation and perceived gender nonconformity,\" the lawsuit alleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Over the years of seeing this, she's come to the place where she really wants people to be held accountable,\" said Jennifer Orthwein, one of the attorneys representing Jespersen. \"She wants to see a culture change, and she wants to be a part of that culture change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports of abuse and mistreatment were ignored by Jespersen's supervisors, according to the suit, and Jespersen was retaliated against for raising them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges that one correctional officer repeatedly encouraged prisoners to attack Jespersen and otherwise put her in danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Tia McDaniels locked Jespersen in a unit alone with a convicted rapist in late 2015, the lawsuit says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months later, McDaniels again locked Jespersen in the unit without correctional officers or access to an alarm, the lawsuit says, \"this time with two prisoners.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Jespersen says she overheard McDaniels telling a group of prisoners that \"she needs to be reminded where she's at,\" allegedly referring to Jespersen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to McDaniels, the lawsuit names as defendants CDCR Secretary Scott Kernan, California Medical Facility Warden Robert Fox, associate wardens Steve Pryor and Dan Cueva, Jespersen's supervisors in prison mental health, two prison investigations officers and a CDCR captain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jespersen says she experienced \"emotional, mental and physical distress\" because of this retaliation and took a doctor-ordered medical leave in June 2016, according to the lawsuit. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison employees outed an inmate as transgender on social media, forced transgender prisoners to strip, prevented inmates from attending an LGBTQ support group and \"assisted prisoners in beating and otherwise abusing gay prisoners on the basis of their sexual orientation and perceived gender nonconformity,\" the lawsuit alleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Over the years of seeing this, she's come to the place where she really wants people to be held accountable,\" said Jennifer Orthwein, one of the attorneys representing Jespersen. \"She wants to see a culture change, and she wants to be a part of that culture change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports of abuse and mistreatment were ignored by Jespersen's supervisors, according to the suit, and Jespersen was retaliated against for raising them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges that one correctional officer repeatedly encouraged prisoners to attack Jespersen and otherwise put her in danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Tia McDaniels locked Jespersen in a unit alone with a convicted rapist in late 2015, the lawsuit says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months later, McDaniels again locked Jespersen in the unit without correctional officers or access to an alarm, the lawsuit says, \"this time with two prisoners.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Jespersen says she overheard McDaniels telling a group of prisoners that \"she needs to be reminded where she's at,\" allegedly referring to Jespersen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to McDaniels, the lawsuit names as defendants CDCR Secretary Scott Kernan, California Medical Facility Warden Robert Fox, associate wardens Steve Pryor and Dan Cueva, Jespersen's supervisors in prison mental health, two prison investigations officers and a CDCR captain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jespersen says she experienced \"emotional, mental and physical distress\" because of this retaliation and took a doctor-ordered medical leave in June 2016, according to the lawsuit. She says she was pressured to return early from that leave, and that when she returned she was demoted to a desk job without direct patient contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This case really has the potential to shine a spotlight on what is the key barrier to making progress to protecting vulnerable inmates in these facilities,\" said Shannon Minter, the legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, \"and that is this prison culture of silence and retaliation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2009 study by researchers at UC Irvine found that transgender prisoners are more than \u003ca href=\"http://ucicorrections.seweb.uci.edu/files/2013/06/Transgender-Inmates-in-CAs-Prisons-An-Empirical-Study-of-a-Vulnerable-Population.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">13 times\u003c/a> more likely to be sexually assaulted than the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a systemic problem that California has been slow to address,\" Orthwein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Bureau of Prisons released a \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.bop.gov/policy/progstat/5200.04.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transgender Offender Manual\u003c/a>\" in the waning days of the Obama administration outlining how facilities should work with transgender prisoners and requiring additional training for prison staff. Jespersen's lawyers say one thing they would like to see come out of this suit is additional training requirements for state prisons and an independent oversight body to ensure the fair and accurate reporting of mistreatment against LGBTQ prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the things CDCR has failed to do is really train and hold accountable correctional staff for colluding with other prisoners to act violently towards LGBT folks, as well as act violently towards them themselves,\" Orthwein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minter, of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, says because of the culture of silence and the threat of potential retaliation against whistleblowers, cases like Jespersen's are exceedingly rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It almost never happens that a prison staffer is willing to put themselves out the way that this woman is doing,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This suit comes a week after Minter's organization helped \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/09/5-transgender-troops-sue-to-stop-trump-plan-to-ban-them/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">five transgender service members\u003c/a> file a lawsuit against President Trump over his tweet saying that transgender people would not be allowed to serve in the U.S. military.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"complaint\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Read the complaint below.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Tuesday, Nov. 8:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/08/brown-early-parole-measure-passes-newsom-gun-control-initiative-leading/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proposition 57 passed\u003c/a> with strong support from voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post Friday, Oct. 7:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center\">The Trials of Marvin Mutch\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://trialsofmarvinmutch.org\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/1b.-Marvin-outside-CMF_CloseUp.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marvin Mutch went to prison at 19 for a murder he swears he didn't commit. He spent four decades striving to prove his innocence and win his freedom. But it would take a major shift in California's criminal justice system for Mutch to be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>'\u003ca href=\"http://trialsofmarvinmutch.org\">The Trials of Marvin Mutch\u003c/a>' investigates Mutch's conviction and chronicles his and the California Justice System's evolution over a lifetime in prison.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 42 in 1976, he said it would provide \"certain, clear punishment for crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure passed the Legislature with little controversy. It created a \u003ca href=\"http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2883&context=facpubs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">determinate sentencing structure in California\u003c/a>, scrapping most open-ended prison terms and instead giving inmates a set release date. It was the first major shift toward a more prescribed approach to punishment in California, one that lawmakers and voters embraced wholeheartedly in the decades that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, 40 years later, Brown believes that signing the law was a mistake -- and he's asking voters to approve a measure that would move California back toward the system it abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2016/general/en/pdf/text-proposed-laws.pdf#prop57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proposition 57\u003c/a> could allow many inmates to serve shorter prison terms than the ones handed down in court when they were sentenced -- if the state parole board judges them suitable for release. The governor believes the change will make prisons and the public safer by giving inmates an incentive to improve themselves while they are incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286577767\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think if anything, this is the greatest step we could take for public safety in California,\" he said, noting that nearly all inmates are eventually released from prison. \"We want to make sure when they get out, they've gone through a real program of education and rehabilitation and to make that happen, you can't force them, but you can incentivize them by the possibility of earlier parole.\"\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nProsecutors disagree and are campaigning vociferously against Proposition 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It's dangerous for California.' \u003ccite>Sacramento DA Anne Marie Schubert\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Our hands will be tied,\" said Ventura County District Attorney Greg Totten. \"What a judge imposes will no longer be significant -- and state bureaucrats, who are not subject to elections, who are not accountable to the public, will be making decisions about who does and who does not get released.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's dangerous for California,\" added Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 42 and a 'Hog Wild' Legislature\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Brown signed the determinate sentencing law, criminal offenders were sentenced to broad, unspecified prison terms. A panel appointed by the governor, then called the Adult Authority, had immense discretion to decide how long an inmate should stayed locked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system in place was supposed to allow the release of inmates when they were deemed rehabilitated and ready to re-enter society. But critics -- mostly civil liberties groups -- thought the policy gave too much power to the law enforcement-dominated Adult Authority and resulted in disproportionately long sentences for people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he listened to those critics when he decided to sign SB 42. As he signed the bill in 1976, he told reporters that \"the concept of rehabilitation is seriously changed in our law by allowing the concept of a determinate sentence for a crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeY-9y3IkVM&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He misjudged the law's impacts, Brown said recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought it would give certainty, it would be more focused, people would know what their punishment is, and that would act as a great deterrent,\" he said. \"Of course, I didn't really think about the fact that when you tell somebody they get out at this date, between then and the time they arrive in prison they have no incentive to take classes, to avoid the gangs, to really scrupulously follow the rules.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown has spent much of his third and fourth terms as governor working to fix California's troubled prison system, which has \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Judges-tell-state-to-free-thousands-of-inmates-3251503.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">been under federal court oversight for a decade\u003c/a> because conditions inside were ruled to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/us/24scotus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">so crowded and chaotic they violated the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment\u003c/a>. Brown believes Proposition 57 may be the final major policy change needed to get the state out from under court control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown doesn't blame SB 42 alone for the prison overcrowding. Brown also lays responsibility at the feet of lawmakers and voters, who approved dozens of \"tough on crime\" sentencing laws in the years that followed. Chief among those laws are \"criminal enhancements\" -- additional time tacked on to prison sentences because of an offender's criminal history or the nature of their crime. For example, a five-year sentence could grow to 20 years if the offender is a member of a gang or had a gun in their possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"First the Legislature goes hog wild -- I'd say criminal legislation on steroids for 30 years,\" the governor said. \"And then at the end of that the Supreme Court says prison conditions are terrible, it's overcrowded, people are committing suicide, they have unconstitutional medical care, you've got to take out thousands and thousands of people from prison,\" he said. \"We want to do that in a rational way, and that's what Proposition 57 attempts to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118978\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11118978\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert fears dangerous criminals will be released under Proposition 57. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert fears dangerous criminals will be released under Proposition 57.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proposition 57 wouldn't do away with sentence enhancements, but it would let the state's parole board decide to release an inmate before he or she serves the time tacked on by enhancements -- if an offender is deemed ready to leave prison. That provision would apply only to inmates serving crimes considered nonviolent under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown estimates it would apply to around 1,100 inmates a year; prosecutors say the number is closer to 16,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor notes that inmates are already being released under this process -- in 2014, a federal court ordered the state to start releasing some prisoners after they served their primary sentence, excluding enhancements. The ballot measure would expand that pool of prisoners to anyone convicted of a \"nonviolent\" crime under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's one of the major problems with Proposition 57, said Schubert, the Sacramento County district attorney. She said the definition of violent crimes in the measure, which includes murder, rape, robbery and kidnapping \u003ca href=\"http://www.stop57.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">but not offenses like assault with a deadly weapon, sexual battery or hostage-taking\u003c/a>, is too narrow and that potentially dangerous felons could qualify for release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118815\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11118815\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-800x1079.jpg\" alt=\"Proposition 57 opponents made these playing cards of inmates they say could be released if the ballot measure passes. Below, you can hear Governor Brown's response in a voicemail he left for Fresno Sheriff Margaret Mims \" width=\"800\" height=\"1079\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-800x1079.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-400x539.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x1591.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-960x1295.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proposition 57 opponents made these playing cards of inmates they say could be released if the ballot measure passes. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"When I go out to the community and I say, 'How many people in this room think domestic violence is a violent crime?' They all raise their hands. 'How many people think assault with a deadly weapon is a violent crime?' They all raise their hands,\" she said. \"Those are all nonviolent under the penal code.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown calls those claims a \"complete red herring,\" noting that some of the state's most notorious inmates -- including Charles Manson -- were convicted before the determinate-sentencing law and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/11/justice/california-charles-manson/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">could be paroled today\u003c/a>. He said the list of violent crimes was created by a ballot measure supported by the District Attorneys Association and that prosecutors have wide discretion when they file charges against defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286449972\" params=\"auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most important, Brown argued, the parole board will take into account the facts of each case and the offender's behavior while in prison when weighing whether to release them -- which is why Manson remains behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parole commissioners making these judgments now will have a better sense of what serves public safety than a court did years or decades ago, he argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm just saying that what they decide on the day of sentencing, that is not all perfect. It's not omniscient, and over time -- five, eight, 10, 15, 20 years -- why not have a group of wise people saying, 'You know what? I think this inmate's ready for release'?\" he said. \"I want the parole board to look into the eyes of that parolee, listen where it's appropriate to the victims or the district attorney, and make an informed judgment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Schubert is worried the parole board won't have a chance to look in the eyes of an inmate or hear from victims and prosecutors directly. She said many of the inmates approved for early release in recent years because of the federal court order never saw a parole commissioner -- their files were reviewed by deputy commissioners, who made a decision without ever talking to the inmate, prosecutors or victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's nothing in the governor's initiative that says it's a parole board\" reviewing the cases, Schubert said. \"What we already know from the governor's early releases is that it's not a hearing, it's a letter. We get to write a letter. That's it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he understands that concern and will work to address it if Proposition 57 passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's something to be decided and maybe we'll take the more serious inmates and maybe put them through live parole,\" he said. \"I understand if it's just administrative, on paper, that's different than, as I said, looking into their eyes. ... I'll try to get the best, safest, most humanly effective process as possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Cleansing the Augean Stables'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second provision of Proposition 57 could have even wider-ranging implications. It would allow the state prisons department to revamp the system for awarding \"good time credits\" to inmates who participate in programs such as drug rehabilitation or schooling. Currently, there's a \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/partners/documents/Credits_Memo.pdf\">patchwork of laws and regulations\u003c/a> governing the credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I challenge you to find in California someone that can explain perfectly the credit system. I don't think they exist,\" Brown said. \"You can get credit 15 percent of the time a third of the time, 20 percent of the time, half the time, day for day -- but it keeps changing. You can get this much credit for this crime, but then in 1990 it was this, in 1995 it was that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor said Proposition 57 would \"cleanse the \u003ca href=\"http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/stables.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Augean stables\u003c/a>\" and allow the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop a new system through a public regulatory process that would include prosecutors, defense attorneys, law enforcement and any other member of the public who wants to weigh in.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The hardest days for me in here are this: When a guy that has committed a murder and he goes home, doing less time than me. ... I've never physically put my hands on anybody. I've caused harm. I've hurt people. Not 50 years' worth.' \u003ccite>San Quentin Prison inmate Curtis Roberts\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Curtis Roberts is one of the inmates barred from earning credits -- even though he's participated in programs during his entire 22 years in state prison. He's the type of prisoner supporters of Proposition 57 cite when arguing that California's criminal justice system has become too rigid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's serving a 50-year-to-life sentence for stealing $40 out of a cash register and burglarizing his in-laws' vacation cabin. In an interview at San Quentin Prison, Roberts said he was addicted to cocaine at the time and committed the crimes to feed his drug habit. He pleaded guilty, he said, to avoid dragging his now ex-wife through a trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Roberts was sentenced in 1995, less than a year after California voters approved the state's \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/20142.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Three Strikes Law\u003c/a>, which required a 25-year-to-life sentence for anyone convicted of a third felony. Roberts had previous robbery convictions and received two 25-to-life sentences for his 1995 convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's not eligible for parole until 2044. He'd be 82 years old by then and says the sentence sometimes overwhelms him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118984\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11118984\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Crystal fears her abuser could be released from prison early under Proposition 57. Here, she looks at photos of her injuries from abuse.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crystal fears her abuser could be released from prison early under Proposition 57. Here, she looks at photos of her injuries from abuse. \u003ccite>(KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"That's why I wanted to commit suicide. It's 50 years,\" he said. \"The hardest days for me in here are this: When a guy that has committed a murder and he goes home, doing less time than me. I internalize that and it's very, very difficult for me. I've never shot a gun. I've never physically put my hands on anybody. I've caused harm. I've hurt people. Not 50 years' worth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters passed Three Strikes in the aftermath of 12-year-old Polly Klaas' kidnapping and murder in Sonoma County. The law aimed to guarantee long sentences for repeat criminals like her killer, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Allen_Davis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richard Allen Davis\u003c/a>, who had been in and out of prison all his life. But the law has also snared many lesser offenders, including drug addicts like Roberts. He's not eligible for a revision to Three Strikes approved by voters in 2012 because his felonies are considered serious and violent even though no one was physically harmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They sentenced me as if I was Richard Allen Davis and that I killed Polly Klaas,\" Roberts said. \"That was the sentence they gave me. But that is not true. I am not Richard Allen Davis. I did not kill Polly Klaas. I didn't molest nobody. The purpose from this point on is punishment for Curtis. Punishment,\" Roberts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 57 opponents, however, worry that inmates won't be truly rehabilitated because the prisons department won't have the necessary resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need meaningful rehabilitation,\" said Schubert. \"I am all for someone earning their way out prison, I am all for them having hope they can get out of prison ... (but) you have to have true rehabilitation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he plans to put more money into prison programs. And Amador County's chief probation officer, Mark Bonini, says even with the incentive of early release, some inmates won't choose to participate. Bonini heads the Chief Probation Officers of California, which has endorsed Proposition 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just because it's there doesn't mean offenders will take advantage,\" Bonini said. \"You could still have somebody, if Prop. 57 passes, do same amount of time,\" he said. \"It's just a matter of trying to incentivize them to take advantage of programs, because ultimately if they do and you have it set up and it's funded, you will have a better product on the back side when they (are released).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonini said his group endorsed the measure because probation chiefs believe it will be easier for offenders to \"seamlessly\" re-enter society if they already are getting help in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One Victim's Mixed Feelings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victims of violent crimes and those with loved ones in prison have mixed feelings about changing the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crystal, who didn't want her last name used for this story, is one of those people. She is a domestic violence survivor who said she was dumbstruck when Schubert's office told her they believe her abuser could be released before his full 25-year sentence under Proposition 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That man, James Coker, was convicted of a harrowing series of assaults on Crystal and other women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118971\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 665px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11118971\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21369_Coker-Booking-Photo-qut.jpg\" alt=\"James Coker is serving a 25 year sentence for abusing his former girlfriend, but prosecutors fear he could be released under Proposition 57.\" width=\"665\" height=\"836\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21369_Coker-Booking-Photo-qut.jpg 665w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21369_Coker-Booking-Photo-qut-400x503.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Coker is serving a 25-year sentence for abusing his former girlfriend, but prosecutors fear he could be released under Proposition 57. \u003ccite>(CDCR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"He's hit me with baseball bats, burned my face with lighters and torches, put cigarettes out in my mouth. I just can't even recall some of the stuff he's done. He's broken one of the mason glass jar things over my head where the bottom of it was sticking out of my head,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Crystal also has a brother in prison who could benefit from Proposition 57. She says she knows many people -- including Coker -- who would have been better served by more effective rehabilitation programs behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'At 82 years old, what am I going to get out to, or for? I believe better of society. I believe better of you. You wouldn't let this happen. I believe better.' \u003ccite>San Quentin inmate Curtis Roberts\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At San Quentin, Roberts dreams of getting out and reconnecting with his daughter, who was 5 when he went to prison. He said he has to balance his hope with the reality of his sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have worked very, very hard on myself to correct some of the past behaviors, my drug use. I haven't used for 22 years,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand in my mind, 50 years. I'm 54 years old, so that means I'll be 82, so that means really I'll never get out. At 82 years old, what am I going to get out to, or for? I believe better of society. I believe better of you. You wouldn't let this happen. I believe better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of our California Counts collaboration with four California public media organizations to cover the 2016 election. The partners include \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\">KPCC in Los Angeles\u003c/a>,\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/\">KQED in San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/\">Capital Public Radio in Sacramento\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>and\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\">KPBS in San Diego\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nProsecutors disagree and are campaigning vociferously against Proposition 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It's dangerous for California.' \u003ccite>Sacramento DA Anne Marie Schubert\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Our hands will be tied,\" said Ventura County District Attorney Greg Totten. \"What a judge imposes will no longer be significant -- and state bureaucrats, who are not subject to elections, who are not accountable to the public, will be making decisions about who does and who does not get released.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's dangerous for California,\" added Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SB 42 and a 'Hog Wild' Legislature\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Brown signed the determinate sentencing law, criminal offenders were sentenced to broad, unspecified prison terms. A panel appointed by the governor, then called the Adult Authority, had immense discretion to decide how long an inmate should stayed locked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system in place was supposed to allow the release of inmates when they were deemed rehabilitated and ready to re-enter society. But critics -- mostly civil liberties groups -- thought the policy gave too much power to the law enforcement-dominated Adult Authority and resulted in disproportionately long sentences for people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he listened to those critics when he decided to sign SB 42. As he signed the bill in 1976, he told reporters that \"the concept of rehabilitation is seriously changed in our law by allowing the concept of a determinate sentence for a crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/MeY-9y3IkVM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/MeY-9y3IkVM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He misjudged the law's impacts, Brown said recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought it would give certainty, it would be more focused, people would know what their punishment is, and that would act as a great deterrent,\" he said. \"Of course, I didn't really think about the fact that when you tell somebody they get out at this date, between then and the time they arrive in prison they have no incentive to take classes, to avoid the gangs, to really scrupulously follow the rules.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown has spent much of his third and fourth terms as governor working to fix California's troubled prison system, which has \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Judges-tell-state-to-free-thousands-of-inmates-3251503.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">been under federal court oversight for a decade\u003c/a> because conditions inside were ruled to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/us/24scotus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">so crowded and chaotic they violated the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment\u003c/a>. Brown believes Proposition 57 may be the final major policy change needed to get the state out from under court control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown doesn't blame SB 42 alone for the prison overcrowding. Brown also lays responsibility at the feet of lawmakers and voters, who approved dozens of \"tough on crime\" sentencing laws in the years that followed. Chief among those laws are \"criminal enhancements\" -- additional time tacked on to prison sentences because of an offender's criminal history or the nature of their crime. For example, a five-year sentence could grow to 20 years if the offender is a member of a gang or had a gun in their possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"First the Legislature goes hog wild -- I'd say criminal legislation on steroids for 30 years,\" the governor said. \"And then at the end of that the Supreme Court says prison conditions are terrible, it's overcrowded, people are committing suicide, they have unconstitutional medical care, you've got to take out thousands and thousands of people from prison,\" he said. \"We want to do that in a rational way, and that's what Proposition 57 attempts to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118978\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11118978\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert fears dangerous criminals will be released under Proposition 57. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21370_Schubert-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert fears dangerous criminals will be released under Proposition 57.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proposition 57 wouldn't do away with sentence enhancements, but it would let the state's parole board decide to release an inmate before he or she serves the time tacked on by enhancements -- if an offender is deemed ready to leave prison. That provision would apply only to inmates serving crimes considered nonviolent under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown estimates it would apply to around 1,100 inmates a year; prosecutors say the number is closer to 16,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor notes that inmates are already being released under this process -- in 2014, a federal court ordered the state to start releasing some prisoners after they served their primary sentence, excluding enhancements. The ballot measure would expand that pool of prisoners to anyone convicted of a \"nonviolent\" crime under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's one of the major problems with Proposition 57, said Schubert, the Sacramento County district attorney. She said the definition of violent crimes in the measure, which includes murder, rape, robbery and kidnapping \u003ca href=\"http://www.stop57.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">but not offenses like assault with a deadly weapon, sexual battery or hostage-taking\u003c/a>, is too narrow and that potentially dangerous felons could qualify for release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118815\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11118815\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-800x1079.jpg\" alt=\"Proposition 57 opponents made these playing cards of inmates they say could be released if the ballot measure passes. Below, you can hear Governor Brown's response in a voicemail he left for Fresno Sheriff Margaret Mims \" width=\"800\" height=\"1079\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-800x1079.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-400x539.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x1591.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21364_FullSizeRender-qut-960x1295.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proposition 57 opponents made these playing cards of inmates they say could be released if the ballot measure passes. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"When I go out to the community and I say, 'How many people in this room think domestic violence is a violent crime?' They all raise their hands. 'How many people think assault with a deadly weapon is a violent crime?' They all raise their hands,\" she said. \"Those are all nonviolent under the penal code.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown calls those claims a \"complete red herring,\" noting that some of the state's most notorious inmates -- including Charles Manson -- were convicted before the determinate-sentencing law and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/11/justice/california-charles-manson/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">could be paroled today\u003c/a>. He said the list of violent crimes was created by a ballot measure supported by the District Attorneys Association and that prosecutors have wide discretion when they file charges against defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='450'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286449972&visual=true&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286449972'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most important, Brown argued, the parole board will take into account the facts of each case and the offender's behavior while in prison when weighing whether to release them -- which is why Manson remains behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parole commissioners making these judgments now will have a better sense of what serves public safety than a court did years or decades ago, he argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm just saying that what they decide on the day of sentencing, that is not all perfect. It's not omniscient, and over time -- five, eight, 10, 15, 20 years -- why not have a group of wise people saying, 'You know what? I think this inmate's ready for release'?\" he said. \"I want the parole board to look into the eyes of that parolee, listen where it's appropriate to the victims or the district attorney, and make an informed judgment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Schubert is worried the parole board won't have a chance to look in the eyes of an inmate or hear from victims and prosecutors directly. She said many of the inmates approved for early release in recent years because of the federal court order never saw a parole commissioner -- their files were reviewed by deputy commissioners, who made a decision without ever talking to the inmate, prosecutors or victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's nothing in the governor's initiative that says it's a parole board\" reviewing the cases, Schubert said. \"What we already know from the governor's early releases is that it's not a hearing, it's a letter. We get to write a letter. That's it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he understands that concern and will work to address it if Proposition 57 passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's something to be decided and maybe we'll take the more serious inmates and maybe put them through live parole,\" he said. \"I understand if it's just administrative, on paper, that's different than, as I said, looking into their eyes. ... I'll try to get the best, safest, most humanly effective process as possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Cleansing the Augean Stables'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second provision of Proposition 57 could have even wider-ranging implications. It would allow the state prisons department to revamp the system for awarding \"good time credits\" to inmates who participate in programs such as drug rehabilitation or schooling. Currently, there's a \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/partners/documents/Credits_Memo.pdf\">patchwork of laws and regulations\u003c/a> governing the credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I challenge you to find in California someone that can explain perfectly the credit system. I don't think they exist,\" Brown said. \"You can get credit 15 percent of the time a third of the time, 20 percent of the time, half the time, day for day -- but it keeps changing. You can get this much credit for this crime, but then in 1990 it was this, in 1995 it was that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor said Proposition 57 would \"cleanse the \u003ca href=\"http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/stables.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Augean stables\u003c/a>\" and allow the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop a new system through a public regulatory process that would include prosecutors, defense attorneys, law enforcement and any other member of the public who wants to weigh in.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The hardest days for me in here are this: When a guy that has committed a murder and he goes home, doing less time than me. ... I've never physically put my hands on anybody. I've caused harm. I've hurt people. Not 50 years' worth.' \u003ccite>San Quentin Prison inmate Curtis Roberts\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Curtis Roberts is one of the inmates barred from earning credits -- even though he's participated in programs during his entire 22 years in state prison. He's the type of prisoner supporters of Proposition 57 cite when arguing that California's criminal justice system has become too rigid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's serving a 50-year-to-life sentence for stealing $40 out of a cash register and burglarizing his in-laws' vacation cabin. In an interview at San Quentin Prison, Roberts said he was addicted to cocaine at the time and committed the crimes to feed his drug habit. He pleaded guilty, he said, to avoid dragging his now ex-wife through a trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Roberts was sentenced in 1995, less than a year after California voters approved the state's \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/20142.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Three Strikes Law\u003c/a>, which required a 25-year-to-life sentence for anyone convicted of a third felony. Roberts had previous robbery convictions and received two 25-to-life sentences for his 1995 convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's not eligible for parole until 2044. He'd be 82 years old by then and says the sentence sometimes overwhelms him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118984\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11118984\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Crystal fears her abuser could be released from prison early under Proposition 57. Here, she looks at photos of her injuries from abuse.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21368_Crystal-qut-1-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crystal fears her abuser could be released from prison early under Proposition 57. Here, she looks at photos of her injuries from abuse. \u003ccite>(KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"That's why I wanted to commit suicide. It's 50 years,\" he said. \"The hardest days for me in here are this: When a guy that has committed a murder and he goes home, doing less time than me. I internalize that and it's very, very difficult for me. I've never shot a gun. I've never physically put my hands on anybody. I've caused harm. I've hurt people. Not 50 years' worth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters passed Three Strikes in the aftermath of 12-year-old Polly Klaas' kidnapping and murder in Sonoma County. The law aimed to guarantee long sentences for repeat criminals like her killer, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Allen_Davis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richard Allen Davis\u003c/a>, who had been in and out of prison all his life. But the law has also snared many lesser offenders, including drug addicts like Roberts. He's not eligible for a revision to Three Strikes approved by voters in 2012 because his felonies are considered serious and violent even though no one was physically harmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They sentenced me as if I was Richard Allen Davis and that I killed Polly Klaas,\" Roberts said. \"That was the sentence they gave me. But that is not true. I am not Richard Allen Davis. I did not kill Polly Klaas. I didn't molest nobody. The purpose from this point on is punishment for Curtis. Punishment,\" Roberts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 57 opponents, however, worry that inmates won't be truly rehabilitated because the prisons department won't have the necessary resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need meaningful rehabilitation,\" said Schubert. \"I am all for someone earning their way out prison, I am all for them having hope they can get out of prison ... (but) you have to have true rehabilitation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he plans to put more money into prison programs. And Amador County's chief probation officer, Mark Bonini, says even with the incentive of early release, some inmates won't choose to participate. Bonini heads the Chief Probation Officers of California, which has endorsed Proposition 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just because it's there doesn't mean offenders will take advantage,\" Bonini said. \"You could still have somebody, if Prop. 57 passes, do same amount of time,\" he said. \"It's just a matter of trying to incentivize them to take advantage of programs, because ultimately if they do and you have it set up and it's funded, you will have a better product on the back side when they (are released).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonini said his group endorsed the measure because probation chiefs believe it will be easier for offenders to \"seamlessly\" re-enter society if they already are getting help in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One Victim's Mixed Feelings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victims of violent crimes and those with loved ones in prison have mixed feelings about changing the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crystal, who didn't want her last name used for this story, is one of those people. She is a domestic violence survivor who said she was dumbstruck when Schubert's office told her they believe her abuser could be released before his full 25-year sentence under Proposition 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That man, James Coker, was convicted of a harrowing series of assaults on Crystal and other women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11118971\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 665px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11118971\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21369_Coker-Booking-Photo-qut.jpg\" alt=\"James Coker is serving a 25 year sentence for abusing his former girlfriend, but prosecutors fear he could be released under Proposition 57.\" width=\"665\" height=\"836\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21369_Coker-Booking-Photo-qut.jpg 665w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/RS21369_Coker-Booking-Photo-qut-400x503.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Coker is serving a 25-year sentence for abusing his former girlfriend, but prosecutors fear he could be released under Proposition 57. \u003ccite>(CDCR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"He's hit me with baseball bats, burned my face with lighters and torches, put cigarettes out in my mouth. I just can't even recall some of the stuff he's done. He's broken one of the mason glass jar things over my head where the bottom of it was sticking out of my head,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Crystal also has a brother in prison who could benefit from Proposition 57. She says she knows many people -- including Coker -- who would have been better served by more effective rehabilitation programs behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'At 82 years old, what am I going to get out to, or for? I believe better of society. I believe better of you. You wouldn't let this happen. I believe better.' \u003ccite>San Quentin inmate Curtis Roberts\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At San Quentin, Roberts dreams of getting out and reconnecting with his daughter, who was 5 when he went to prison. He said he has to balance his hope with the reality of his sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have worked very, very hard on myself to correct some of the past behaviors, my drug use. I haven't used for 22 years,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand in my mind, 50 years. I'm 54 years old, so that means I'll be 82, so that means really I'll never get out. At 82 years old, what am I going to get out to, or for? I believe better of society. I believe better of you. You wouldn't let this happen. I believe better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of our California Counts collaboration with four California public media organizations to cover the 2016 election. 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