As the public hearing for a proposal to expand California’s inmate credits system—a system to release certain inmates early—is coming up on April 14, state Republican lawmakers are urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to have the proposal withdrawn following a deadly mass shooting in Sacramento.
Assembly Members Kevin Kiley, James Gallaher, and Laurie Davies were among the 15 lawmakers calling for the governor to remove the increase of good conduct credits from the proposal (pdf) by the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation system that allows inmates to be released early.
“Crime, and the fear of crime, is rising in California,” their April 13 letter to Newsom read. “Atrocities, such as the shooting of six and wounding of 12 individuals one block from the State Capitol, are mere demonstrations of the fact that, far too often, dangerous criminals are loose on our streets when they should have been behind bars.”
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