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More than three-quarters of California s district attorneys are suing the state over its prison good conduct rules that could result in the early release of thousands of inmates, including some serving time for violent offenses.
The lawsuit was brought Wednesday by 44 of the state s 58 top prosecutors and accuses Corrections Secretary Kathleen Allison of using an emergency declaration to bypass the normal regulatory process. The lawsuit says the emergency regulations were really an attempt to comply with the direction outlined in the Governor’s Budget Summary from the year prior.
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May 17 Thien Ho came to the United States in 1976 as a refugee from Vietnam, a 4-year-old boy whose father used his toy pistol to bluff the family s way through checkpoints and flee across the South China Sea on a fishing boat. My father had stolen a uniform from a communist officer and painted my toy gun black so we would be able to evade the military checkpoints, Ho recalled. We ran out of gas, ran out of food, ran out of water.
About two-thirds of California s top county prosecutors are challenging new rules that could make tens of thousands of people incarcerated in the state eligible for early release.
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05/12/2021 09:23 AM EDT
THE BUZZ REALITY BITES, PART II: It’s been a rough couple of weeks since Caitlyn Jenner made the official move from reality TV star to gubernatorial candidates. And, it’s brutal out there especially for a newcomer TV star who wants to jump into the piranha pond of CA politics. Because it means constantly confronting one thing that doesn’t exist in reality TV: fact-checking.