Thursday, April 14, 2016

BREAKING NEWS: Parole Board Recommends Leslie Van Houten's Release

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In her book The Long Prison Journey of Leslie Van Houten , Karlene Faith provides a contextual account of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders by ...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Elections 2016: Does It Matter Who's President?

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As in every election cycle, CCC will be releasing endorsements once the propositions are on the ballot. We will also release an official e...

Has Prop 47 Led to Increased Crime Rates? (Hint: No)

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Since the enactment of Proposition 47, which reclassified numerous California felonies as misdemeanors and led to a relief in jail populatio...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

More on Governor Brown's Sentencing Initiative

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This is a follow-up to my initial comments  on the proposed initiative, titled The Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016,   I've ...
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BREAKING NEWS: Brown's Proposed Sentencing Reform Pulls Us Back to the Future

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Just two days after the Supreme Court's encouraging decision in Montgomery v. Louisiana and President Obama's announcement of a s...
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Monday, January 25, 2016

SCOTUS Offers Hope for Lifers Without Parole Sentenced When They Were Juveniles

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In 1963, Henry Montgomery killed a police officer. His murder conviction in Louisiana, for "guilty without capital punishment", ca...
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

No New Jail in San Francisco... Now What?

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The long-standing debate about the construction of an alternative to San Francisco's Jail no. 4 at 850 Bryant ended yesterday with a vic...