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| California Assembly bill makes prisoners in isolation eligible for early release |
| By dailycal.org- Lillian Dong |
| Published: 08/08/2016 |
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The California State Assembly passed a state Senate bill Thursday that will allow prisoners in Security Housing Units, or SHUs, to be eligible for early release based on good behavior. The bill, SB 759, will also be applied to prisoners in psychiatric services and administrative segregation units and repeals an earlier provision that made prisoners in SHUs — also known as solitary confinement — ineligible to earn credits. Credits allow for earlier releases and are gained by staying “discipline-free” and by participating in rehabilitative programs. “The narrative accompanying the people in solitary confinement is that these people are the worst of the worst,” said Laura Magnani, assistant regional director of the American Friends Services Committee, an organization that supported the Senate bill. “Our experiences say (this narrative is) totally false.” Prisoners can be held in SHUs for protective custody, suspected gang-affiliations or for violating prison rules and regulations and currently are unable to earn credit, thus extending their times in prison. According to Magnani, the extended times in prisons come at an unnecessary cost to taxpayers — she estimated that tens of thousands of dollars are spent per prisoner each year. Read More. |
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