Without an alternative, the judges had threatened to order the state to give thousands of inmates good time credits, which would lead to their early release. They have repeatedly threatened to hold Brown in contempt if the state does not meet the deadline to reduce the prison population to ab...
Gang leader executed despite pleas: Calif. governor refused to spare life of man who became an antiviolence crusader in prisonTHE LOS ANGELES TIMES
" said John Worrall, a professor of criminology at University of Texas at Dallas. "But by providing the facilities they are in fact facilitating (a crime). They are doing their best to comply with the state. It's a bit of a gray area."...
Kruzan's case became a high-profile example used by state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, who sought to ease life sentences for juveniles. "It is justice long overdue," Yee told the Los Angeles Times. He called Kruzan's case the "perfect example of adult...
He was released in 1985, then sent back to prison and the mental hospital for kidnapping and molesting a 3-year-old boy in Los Angeles in 1987. He relocated to Idaho in 2010, where he was classified as a violent sexual predator in that state's sex offender registry, and has no crimina...
mental hospital,the Orange County Register reported .He was released in 1985, then sent back to prison and the mental hospital for kidnapping and molesting a 3-year-old boy in Los Angeles in 1987.He relocated to Idaho in 2010, where he was classified as a violent sexual predator in that ...
Tseng, 42, was scheduled to be arraigned on Friday. She was being held on $3 million bail and could face a stateprison termof 45 years to life if convicted. After a long probe involving U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency agents posing as patients, Tseng was charged Thursday in the deaths of...