Indefinite sentencing is cruel and inhumane
Indefinite sentencing is cruel and inhumane
January 2, 2021
by Mutope Duguma
On Dec. 7, 2020, newly elected Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón gave a public announcement in Special Directive 20-14 – click to download the PDF – which laid out a comprehensive directive, or blueprint, toward ending state-sanctioned execution in the form of indefinite sentencing, where, for decades, humans in CDCr suffer permanent imprisonment.
We the people support this comprehensive special directive 20-14, but believe it falls short – it is not yet reaching the prison population held indefinitely under cruel and unusual punishment. As a human being who has been subjected to 33 years of imprisonment held in an 8-by-10-foot cell for a conviction in the 1980s, I know it is cruel and unusual punishment.
A Los Angeles County judge on Wednesday ordered new District Attorney George Gascón to show why criminal justice reforms he enacted which county prosecutors say conflict with state law should not be blocked.
The order by L.A. County Superior Court Judge David J. Cowan stems from a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the Association of Deputy District Attorneys of Los Angeles (ADDA). The union’s lawsuit comes less than a month after Gascón took office and enacted reforms prosecutors run afoul of state laws including the state’s Three Strikes Law.
In a statement following Cowan’s order, Gascón acknowledged the criminal justice system will take time to adjust to his reforms which he said voters demanded by electing him over the incumbent D.A. Jackie Lacey.
Los Angeles County prosecutors sue Gascon for not enforcing the law
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Jazz ShawPosted at 8:01 am on December 31, 2020
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Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon hasn’t even been in office for a month yet but he’s been making more headlines than the pandemic. Unfortunately for Gascon (and the citizens of his county), few of those breaking news items have been of the good variety. The wildly liberal, anti-cop DA has been working overtime to empty the jails and prevent the prosecution of criminals, even as crime rates have been surging in the City of Angels. The latest news out of his office won’t be changing that pattern at all. His own prosecutors are going to court to ask a judge to block their new boss’s orders and prevent them from having to break the law themselves by carrying out his directives. And it looks like they have a pretty solid case. (Fox News)
New Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón takes the oath of office on Dec. 7, 2020. (Photo courtesy George Gascón)
LOS ANGELES (CN) A Los Angeles County judge on Wednesday ordered new District Attorney George Gascón to show why criminal justice reforms he enacted which county prosecutors say conflict with state law should not be blocked.
The order by LA County Superior Court Judge David J. Cowan stems from a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the Association of Deputy District Attorneys of Los Angeles (ADDA). The union’s lawsuit comes less than a month after Gascón took office and enacted reforms prosecutors say run afoul of state laws including the state’s Three Strikes Law.