ADM JUS 5 Lecture 1: ADM_JUS_005_-_Lecture_1
12 May 2020
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Roughly around 20,000 inmates in 1950s-1970s and then spiked to. Shifts responsibility of lower level offenders from state to counties in oct. Passed; affects 33,000 inmates and 90,000 parolees. Ballot measure to revise 3rd strike in nov. 2012. Changed 3rd strike to serious and violent felonies. Ballot measure to repeal in november 2012. Reclassifies property and drug offense to misdemeanors november 2014. Parole consideration for non-violent offenders who have served primary term in november 2016. Ballot measure to repeal in november 2016. Explosions on how they were going to handle criminals. Crime is down and the same as it was in 1960, prison populations are up. August 2009 three-judge panel held california prisons violated 8th amendment. Crowding is cause of poor health care. California must reduce prison population to 137. 5% capacity by june 2013 (shed from 160,000 inmates to 120,000) Who goes in length of sentences good/gain time earned post release policies who goes in.
