Here’s just another example in the long line of “non-violent offenders” being released from state prison under AB109. A man on probation as a “non-violent offender” under California’s prison realignment program has been charged with kidnapping, raping, and torturing a 16-year-old girl in South Los Angeles, and detectives suspect he may be connected to three other recent murders. Robert L. Ranson, 30, was arrested in late March after the girl
prison realignment
March 10, 2014
Gov. Jerry Brown to Californians: Your safety means nothing to me. [Darleen Click]
It’s bad enough when it appeared to be mere stupidity that Brown and his administration was just surprised that AB109/Prison Realignment has resulted in released felons re-offending … Unexpectedly! … but only malice can explain the blame of the rise in crime and, especially, second-strikers on county District Attorneys. San Bernardino District Attorney Mike Ramos was on Los Angeles radio station KFI640 this afternoon and revealed that not only is
March 8, 2014
Unexpected! Confounding! [Darleen Click]
Proof of the death of basic reporter skills in modern J-school grads. From Ass.Press: California counties are confounding the state’s court-ordered efforts to sharply reduce its inmate population by sending state prisons far more convicts than anticipated, including a record number of second-strikers. The surge in offenders requiring state prison sentences is undermining Gov. Jerry Brown’s 3-year-old realignment law that restructured California’s criminal justice system to keep lower-level felons out
November 6, 2013
Our Royal Federal Judiciary [Darleen Click]
California, caught in the perfect storm of one-party rule and Federal dictatorship. California has long been the epicenter of prison litigation. But for cataclysmic force and sheer staying power, nothing beats two massive and now inextricably intertwined class-action lawsuits. The Prison Law Office, California’s leading prisoner-rights organization, filed a suit in 1990 arguing that the mental health care provided to the state’s mentally ill inmates violated the U.S. Constitution. A
July 25, 2012
CA Gov Jerry Brown lied about ‘prison realignment’ … who knew? [Darleen Click]
No links for this, this is anecdotal information I’m directly observing now that I’m back working at the Office of the District Attorney. Last year Jerry Brown pushed, and got, Assembly Bill 109 (AB109) passed. It deals with a program called “Prison Realignment” — simply put, CA’s state prison system is way over-capacity and the Federal government has ordered a reduction in the population, on the order of tens of