Government
Oct. 12, 2013
Recent law could help state cut prison crowding, advocates say
Proposition 36 could provide a "significant response" to the state's prison overcrowding crisis, according to an amicus brief filed Thursday.
By Hamed Aleaziz
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund asked a federal three-judge federal on Thursday to demand that California expedite the implementation of a measure that reformed the state's three-strikes law.
Proposition 36, which received nearly 69 percent of voter support last November, altered the previous law such that sentences of 25 years to life are given only when an offender's third strike, is a serious or violent felony....
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