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| CA Trying To Make Chelsea's Law Less Costly |
| By caivn.org |
| Published: 08/11/2010 |
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The Assemblyman behind Chelsea's Law, a piece of legislation which seeks to incarcerate sex offenders for life, is amending his bill to reduce its impact on the California state budget. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office determined that the longer prison sentences and mandates for lifetime parole monitoring in the original bill would cost hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Before the Senate Appropriations committee considers AB 1844 this week, Nathan Fletcher (R-San Diego) is proposing several changes to save on corrections spending in other areas. One such suggestion is to let petty thieves serve terms in county jails rather than state prisons. "We want to focus on people we're afraid of and not people we're mad at, and we need to prioritize," Fletcher said. The Fresno Bee offers a summary of the substantive changes to the bill: "[Fletcher's] bill now reserves life-without-parole for adult offenders who kidnap, drug, bind, torture or use a weapon while committing a sex crime against a child. Read More. |
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