As Humboldt County lawyers, we are seeing many requests for early releases from the Humboldt County Correctional Facility and prison based on new legislation to address overcrowding. Crime victim advocacy groups have recently joined California lawmakers in filing a lawsuit against new potential legislation that would allow the state to release around 6,500 inmates this year before their prison sentences ended. The new legislation would conflict with a voter-approved initiative that prohibits early releases to solve overcrowding problems, the lawsuit alleges. Inmates that could qualify for release may have been convicted of domestic violence, child and elder abuse, and 19 different sexual assault crimes.
Michael Gardner and Dana Littlefield, San Diego Union Tribune 03/29/2010.
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