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California Prison Inmates to Get Early Release Under New Program

By Walin & Klarich

As we all have heard, California state prisons are far too overcrowded. As a result, many times, convicted criminals get released early. Well, a new plan calls for some prisoners to do their time at a ?community-based? rehabilitation program instead of getting released early! This includes home confinement, electronic monitoring, or doing time a county jail. In a way, this can be seen as a positive as some of the newly convicted felons or those who violate their parole would avoid going to prison and instead do their time in one of these ?community-based? rehabilitation programs; a trade most would probably make. On the other hand, this would eliminate releasing criminal defendants sentenced to serve time in state prisons due to overcrowding issues...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on July 11, 2008 (boomark / email).