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| State Corrections Officials Acknowledge Some Prisoners Are Being Released Early To Reduce Overcrowding |
| By losangeles.cbslocal.com |
| Published: 05/01/2014 |
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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials have acknowledged that some low-level, nonviolent prisoners are being released early under a federal court order to reduce the inmate population. “For many of those offenders, this just means that the sentence date, the release date, is changed by a matter of days. These are people who were going to be under that supervision, anyway. It’s just that their dates were changed by a few days in these cases. That’s what’s happened,” Jeffrey Callison, the press secretary for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said. KCAL9’s Dave Bryan said officials are not using the term “early release.” They said the release dates for some prisoners have been “recalculated”—shortened because they’ve been given more credit for good behavior. Read More. |
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