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LA Supes End Ban on Parolee/Probationer Eligibility for Subsidized...

SOME LA PAROLEES AND PROBATIONERS WILL NOW BE ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE SECTION 8 VOUCHERS On Tuesday, the LA County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 in favor of opening up Section 8 program eligibility to...

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ACLU Sues LAUSD, Justice Breyer and the Death Penalty, Parole Bill for Juvie...

LAUSD TAKING STATE FUNDS AWAY FROM KIDS WHO NEED IT MOST, SEZ LAWSUIT In Mid June, a UC Berkeley and United Way report found that the Los Angeles Unified School District had misappropriated state...

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Gov. Brown’s Justice Reform Ballot Initiative, TEDxSanQuentin, and Which Way,...

GOV. JERRY BROWN’S NEW BALLOT INITIATIVE HANDS POWER TO CHARGE KIDS AS ADULTS BACK TO JUDGES AND INCREASES MERIT-BASED EARLY RELEASES On Wednesday, California Governor Jerry Brown announced a November...

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Should ex-Mexican Mafia Hitman Rene “Boxer” Enriquez Be Paroled?

On Friday, Rene “Boxer” Enriquez, who by his own account is a former shot-caller and hitman for the Mexican Mafia, was granted parole by a two-person panel of California’s parole commissioners. In...

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Jerry Brown Blocks Parole—Again—for former Mexican Mafia Hitman Rene “Boxer”...

On Thursday, California Governor Jerry Brown blocked parole for self-described former shot-caller and hitman for the Mexican Mafia, Rene “Boxer” Enriquez, after a two person panel of California’s...

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State Proposes Rules for Prop. 57 Regarding Good Time Credits and Parole

Late last week, California prison officials proposed regulations for the portions of voter-approved Proposition 57 that increase parole and prisoners’ access to good time credits. The regulations,...

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State-by-State Analysis Shows Confusing & Problematic Rules and Delays Make...

While 49 states and D.C. have laws and programs in place that allow for the “compassionate release” of prisoners nearing the end of their lives due to terminal illness or age, the programs are rarely...

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Study Shows CA Juvenile Lifers Less Likely to Be Paroled if They Are Black or...

In 2013, then-California Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 260, a law that gave a second chance at parole to kids who committed murder before the age of 18 and were sentenced to life-without-parole. A new...

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Community Supervision Is Overused, Overly Punitive, and Fuels Mass...

Approximately 4.4 million (or 1 out of every 58) adults were on probation or parole in the United States as of the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ last updated count, at the end of 2018. To give some...

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Parole Trends in the Time of COVID-19: Fewer Hearings, Fewer Approvals

Only five out of 13 states actually increased the number of people granted parole during the first year of the pandemic over 2019, as COVID-19 raged through prisons and jails, infecting and killing...

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