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As my colleague Mike Miller reported, California is releasing up to 76,000 inmates from the State prisons, many of them violent criminals:
As reported by AP, more than 63,000 of the 76,000 inmates, who were convicted of violent crimes, will be eligible for “good behavior credits” that shorten their sentences by one-third instead of the one-fifth that had been in place since 2017. That includes nearly 20,000 inmates who are serving life sentences with the possibility of parole.
Insane, or just me?
According to AP, the new rule took effect Saturday, but AP said “it will be months or years before any inmates go free earlier. Corrections officials say the goal is to reward inmates who better themselves while critics said the move will endanger the public.”
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Sonora, CA – 41 district attorneys out of California’s 58 counties have signed on to a letter challenging emergency regulations allowing for the early release of what they call “some of California’s most violent criminals.”
Those on the letter include all Mother Lode county D.A.s, most notably, Calaveras County D.A. Barbara Yook and Cassandra Jenecke for Tuolumne County. The group has filed a petition with the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) requesting the repeal of temporary emergency regulations that award additional credits to more than 76,000 state prison inmates. They also question the timing of the regulations that were passed under a claim of an emergency and only made
California Flooring Business Owners Charged for $3.8M Workers’ Comp Fraud May 14, 2021
Ryan Black, 45, formerly of Fair Oaks, Calif., and Curtis Davis, 53, of Penryn, were both charged this week with three felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud after allegedly underreporting payroll and employees by more than $30 million to save on workers’ compensation insurance premiums.
The underreporting resulted in an approximate loss of $3.8 million to three insurance companies, according to the California Department of Insurance.
Black and Davis were owners of Apex Industry Solutions Inc., a flooring installation company in Sacramento. In October 2017, Apex’s insurance carrier at the time reportedly discovered that two individuals working for Apex were performing floor installations without a license and were receiving 1099 forms as independent contractors instead of W-2 forms as employees. However, Black identified the two workers, along w