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The Uniform Determinate Sentencing Act of 1976 was a bill signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown to changes sentencing requirements in the California Penal Code.The act converted most sentences from an "indeterminate" sentence length at the discretion of the parole board to a "determinate" sentence length specified by the state legislature.
Assembly Bill 1960 imposes automatic sentence enhancements for people convicted of stealing property worth $50,000 or more. They will get an extra year in prison. They will get an extra year in ...
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 measure, Proposition 36, would impose mandated drug treatment for some drug crimes, add new penalties for some theft and drug offenses, and add new sentencing enhancements that would apply to ...
In 2014, California voters passed Proposition 47, which reclassified several felonies as misdemeanors. Proposition 47 passed with nearly 60% [6] of votes across California, and was supported by the editorial board of the New York Times, [7] the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times, [8] and the American Civil Liberties Union. [9]
Since 2014, the state has saved about $100 million annually resulting from the sentencing changes made under Proposition 47. Those funds have gone to victim services, mental health, and substance ...
In the past decade, California’s i ncarceration rate has dropped about 30%. The hundreds of millions of dollars the state saved by incarcerating fewer people was reallocated into community ...
California, 549 U.S. 270 (2007), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 6–3, that the sentencing standard set forward in Apprendi v. New Jersey (2000) applies to California's determinate sentencing law. In California, a judge may choose one of three sentences for a crime—a low, middle, or high term.