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California s progressive prosecutors are enhancing safety through reform
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California has always been at the forefront of progress. From marriage equality to climate change, and the internet; as goes California, so goes the nation. California’s ability to lead, however, has not always resulted in positive change. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Golden State also led the way on implementing tough-on-crime policies. The nation followed, leading to our modern crisis of mass incarceration. Now it is time for us to lead by modeling progressive criminal justice policies and resisting the call from some to roll back recent progress.
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Question of the Day By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press - Wednesday, March 3, 2021
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California lawmakers are pushing several new efforts this year to largely seal or expunge criminal records for people who have completed their sentences, expanding on existing laws that proponents said aid people who are trying to re-enter society.
Nearly 8 million of California’s 40 million residents have an arrest or conviction on their record, said state Sen. Maria Elena Durazo, a Democrat from Los Angeles who proposed one of the measures on Wednesday.
“These men and women have completed the sentence they were given,” and many pursued rehabilitation programs during their incarceration, she said. “After their release, instead of being able to put their new skills to use, they are hit with hundreds if not th
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A death row inmate is escorted back to his East Block cell after spending time in the yard at San Quentin State Prison. (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
Newsom’s candidates for state AG critical of death penalty
LOS ANGELES Two years after Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered a moratorium on executions in California, he is preparing to appoint a state attorney general from a field of potential candidates that includes some of the state’s leading critics of the death penalty.
With current Attorney General Xavier Becerra up for Senate confirmation as President Biden’s secretary of Health and Human Services, criminal justice reform activists have recommended for the job candidates including a district attorney who has stopped seeking the death penalty in murder cases and elected officials who have backed unsuccessful ballot measures to repeal capital punishment.