AnonymousSource: District Attorney’s Office
Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce E. Dudley announced today that 76,000 California inmates are being considered for earlier release from State Prison. Some of those inmates are in custody for violent crimes and/or are repeat (felony) offenders.
District Attorney Dudley seeks to remind the public, and specifically victims of violent crime, that her office is committed to protecting local crime victims and preventing additional crimes.
The Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office Victim-Witness Assistance Program’s advocates stand ready to provide crisis intervention, crime prevention services, criminal case status information, victim compensation and court accompaniment to all local victims. The DA Advocates are available to both current and past victims of crime who are seeking information about an offender’s status and whereabouts, even long after they have been sent to State Prison.
Many California Laws have changed in recent years shortening the original State Prison Sentences. Often crime victims are caught unaware of modified sentences and early releases. If you, or someone you know, has been a victim of a crime and is concerned about a State Prison Inmate, his or her current status, prison release date or upcoming parole hearing, our Advocates can assist by navigating the local and state criminal justice system and provide crime prevention information and counseling assistance as necessary.
District Attorney Dudley stated, “We continue to stand together committed to protecting and upholding crime victims’ rights as well as our public’s safety.”
For Non-Emergency Victim Assistance, an advocate is available 24/7 at (805) 568-2400.
And anywhere from a couple hundred to a thousand will be camping in Santa Barbara County with their cooking fires every night but don’t worry you can call the DA’s non emergency number and get help from a qualified social worker when you need it..
This is both sickening and unsettling! Like it wasn’t bad enough to live through a pandemic . . . now this?
Thanks Gov Newsom! Of the 76000 more than 63,000 inmates convicted of violent crimes will be eligible for good behavior credits that shorten their sentences by one-third instead of the one-fifth that had been in place since 2017. That includes nearly 20,000 inmates who are serving life sentences with the possibility of parole. Dana Simas the press secretary of the CDCR says “The goal is to increase incentives for the incarcerated population to practice good behavior and follow the rules while serving their time, and participate in rehabilitative and educational programs, which will lead to safer prisons,” This is crazy….Safer prisons? What about the streets?
I feel so much “Safer” now… Put the number in speed dial, that’ll help so much.
Are we sure these aren’t just low level drug offenders and the DA is getting on her high horse?
Newsome just doesn’t understand the problems that his Newsomevilles are causing.
The fruition of liberal voters. Voting has consequences. Enjoy.
Unfortunately, these releases won’t affect the Montecito and upper class SB neighborhoods, sadly the lower income areas will be most impacted by this…
VOTE HIM OUT!
The French Laundry isn’t near one of his Newsomevilles so he doesn’t care.
At some point in time we just need to get and keep the violent people off the streets. Releasing them will only increase the amount of violent crime.
California voters chose the people enacting this law.
76,000 State Prison inmates? You don’t get state prison for minor offenses, so there are certainly some very bad dudes in the huge number. I’m thinking, if you do this, you need a lot more parole officers to keep an eye on these people.
Newsome is anti-business and anti-common sense. His policies are all about helping the criminals first and pushing other whack policies that they come up with in San Francisco. Boo.. boooooooo. Boooooo to Newsome and his SF nut job friends.
Our publicity hound DA is just seeking more press by fanning fear. The release of inmates and the reduction of sentences has been amazingly salutary for society. The US had been imprisoning something like 3X the inmates per capita than did Europe, for example. Yet the crime rate in Europe was 1/3 that of the US. Long prison terms just give very high pay to correctional guards and to those who were building these destructive buildings. As a result of the reforms that our society has been developing (and which our DA knows about for sure) we are saving big money, reducing recidivism and making a more productive community.