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Proposition 57 was an initiated California ballot proposition, approved on the November 8, 2016 ballot. The Proposition allows parole consideration for nonviolent felons, changes policies on juvenile prosecution, [2] and authorizes sentence credits for rehabilitation, good behavior, and education.
The California Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), previously known as the California Youth Authority (CYA), was a division of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation that provided education, training, and treatment services for California's most serious youth offenders, until its closure in 2023.
A California prison reform bill seemingly inspired by Norway's model of campus living focuses too narrowly on training workers to fill trucking jobs.
After seeing kids desperate to change their lives but unable to because of California law at that time, Budnick and others launched a pilot program out of Los Angeles County where every single kid coming into the prison system—if they are doing the right things on their own—got to go to a place where they could get their high school diploma ...
In Stanislaus County, about 65% of voters rejected a ballot measure in the Nov. 5 election that sought to end forced labor in prisons and jails in California. Proposition 6, which was defeated ...
But the legislative analyst's report also found that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation — which consumes $14.5 billion of the governor's proposed 2024-2025 budget ...
It was the result of a court-order in response to shortfalls in medical and mental health care for the state's prison population. On 23 May 2011, the US Supreme Court upheld an order by a three-judge federal court requiring the state of California to reduce its state prison population to no more than 137.5% of its design capacity within two years.
Not that jobs go undone: More than 90,000 people are in California's prisons, and only about 35,000 have jobs. And if Proposition 6 had passed, prisoners still would have been able to work on a ...