The Sacramento Bee – May 14, 2012 – The reaction to Gov. Jerry brown’s budget plan is rolling in. Here’s a sampling from prepared releases…[for full story: http://defender411.us/KIAMOS ]
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May 14, 2012 – Below is a ink to a Sacramento Bee sponsored link
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San Diego Union-Tribune – May 8, 2012 – San Diego County proposed a $4.77 billion budget Tuesday, down from this year’s $4.86 billion plan despite increasing spending on public safety and health services.
Overall, the spending …

Monday, May 07 2012
By The Bakersfield Californian
Several recent prison reform proposals offer hope that California might finally be on its way to fixing what many on the left and right have long agreed is a …

The San Bernardino Desert Sun – by Matthew Cate, Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation – May 5, 2012
When the U.S. Supreme Court ordered California to sharply reduce prison overcrowding, there were …

Californians have the opportunity to make history in November

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KALW Public Radio San Francisco 91.7 FM – By Rina Palta – April 30, 2012
At the moment, Austin Hills is wearing an orange t-shirt, orange pants, and wrist shackles. He’s sitting in an interview room …

The Future of California Corrections

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MSNBC News – By Bob Sullivan – April 25, 2012
A California lawmaker wants cellphone firms to report how often they release consumer location information to law enforcement officials, but the industry says it will fight …

The Los Angeles Times – April 25, 2012
California is on the verge of a justice revolution. Realignment, as it is known, is a set of changes thrust upon the state by our collective inertia: Prisons …

Valley News – April 24, 2012
RIVERSIDE – The Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted today to support a bill aimed at preserving local jail space by requiring that inmates sentenced to more than three years …

By David Liebler, California State Association of Counties – April 24th, 2012
Ask Santa Cruz County Chief Probation Officer Scott MacDonald about the value of thinking outside the box and
his eyes light up. If you want …

The Sacramento Bee – April 24, 2012
A key legislative committee isn’t going to act on a package of public pension reforms proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown and adopted by Republicans in their own bills.
Assembly pension …

April 23, 2012 04:12 pm – Sabrina Ambler, MML News Reporter
Sacramento, CA — The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) today released a plan to…[for full story: http://defender411.us/IkHVUG ]
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By Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times – April 23, 2012, 6:55 p.m.
California is set for a major debate on the death penalty following qualification Monday of a November ballot measure that would replace capital punishment …

The Sacramento Bee – April 23, 2012
Californians voters going to the polls in November will again decide the fate of the death penalty.
A measure to abolish the death penalty and replace it with a maximum …

April 22, 2012

Loyola Law School Fidler Institute AB 109 and Realignment

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Invitations to Comment: Proposals to amend Cal. Rules of Ct. & Judicial Council forms
From: “Kieliger, Camilla”
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:16:00 -0700
Subject: Invitations to Comment: Proposals to amend Cal. Rules of Court and
Judicial Council forms
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