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| Baca: serve a quarter of sentence |
| By The Los Angeles Daily News |
| Published: 08/21/2006 |
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LOS ANGELES, CA - Under fire for his early-release program that freed many Los Angeles County inmates after they'd served just 10 percent of their time, Sheriff Lee Baca has proposed that all inmates sentenced to jail serve 25 percent of their time - no matter what the crime. The move would be a significant departure from the sliding-scale method now used by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department to determine who gets released early from its overcrowded jails. "Everybody does the same time regardless of the crime," Assistant Sheriff Paul K. Tanaka said. "We aren't going to make the moral decision." The proposed policy, if adopted, would apply only to about 1,800 of the estimated 19,000 people locked up in county jails. Those are the ones who have been sentenced by judges to jail terms, normally less than a year for misdemeanors or low-level felonies. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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