Nixing prison time for certain crimes among proposed changes to California Penal Code March 2, 2021 SB 81 and 82 would reform the state’s use of sentencing enhancements that add years to prison sentences and reform a 150-year-old law that gives prosecutors the ability to classify a petty theft charge as felony robbery. These steps are crucial to progress, but we must continue to call for mass releases and release of our elders from CDCr cages! In this photo, protestors march along the road to San Quentin State Prison calling for an end to the brutality of incarceration, especially in a pandemic. – Photo: Jose Carlos Fajardo, Bay Area News Group