Who was the recent California to make a bid for clemency?
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Actually, there is a report on this on the CA Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation site... the link is:\nhttp://www.cdcr.ca.gov/ReportsResearch/docs/Quarterly/Strike1/STRIKE1d0509.pdf\n..this is just for CA alone... basically it says that the total number of inmates on their 2nd or 3rd strike is 40,587\n\nThese strikes, espcially the 3rd (which gives 25 to life), are from any type of felony (violent or non-violent)...\n\n..and in comment to the previous answer... to put it this way, It actually costs the state and tax payers more money to put someone on death row and actually kill them, than to have them in prison for life without the possibility of parole. (the difference being millions of dollars)
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Rosenose is correct, but a little vague. Following is a link to information from the California Secretary of State that has all the informaiton you need: \n\nhttp://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections_cand.htm
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I would check with the CA dept. of Corrections Online
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Average is around 45K, and that does include the cost of administration, staff salaries, maintenence,etc... Average starting wage for a California Correctional Officer is around 60k plus a really kick butt benefits package, a Warden can make as much as 220k.\nThe majority of the problem is the gross mismanagement of the system...\nRead these articles, then tell me it's the inmates at fault for the price tag.\nSACRAMENTO (AP) - A urologist charged California's prison system $2,036 an hour to treat inmates. An orthopedic surgeon billed the state for 30 hours' work - for a single day.\n\nThe examples are contained in an audit released Wednesday that found rampant waste in how California's prison health care system spends money on outside doctors, nurses and laboratories.\n\nThe lax spending practices have cost California taxpayers millions, according to the audit by the state controller's office. Prison health care spending soared from $153 million in 2001 to $821 million this year - an increase of $668 million, or 437 percent.\n\n"Waste, abuse and management deficiencies are rampant" in contracted health care services, state Controller Steve Westly said during a news conference.\nhttp://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/14285425p-15098879c.html  ...\n\nHere, as if it were needed, is yet another costly indication that the state's prison system is out of control. \n\nThe latest report from the Office of the Inspector General focuses only on management of union release time, which is time that prison guards spend on union business. The report shows everything that is wrong with the 2001-2006 contract with the guards union, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association. It also shows the state's utter failure to do even the most basic accounting of time and money. \n\nThis failure, concludes the inspector general, has meant that the state's corrections department has "mismanaged millions of dollars in public resources." \n\nFirst, the state pays the full cost of three prison guard union vice presidents, who are released from their prison jobs to work full time on union activities. Only two other state unions have this expensive perk. The state also pays for the 43 prison guard union chapter presidents to be released from their prison jobs for union activities one day a week... \n\nBut beyond that, this whole mess shows a corrections department that doesn't care about managing union time release among prison guards and doesn't budget for the costs. The money always comes, regardless of mismanagement. Fixing the contract won't fix that. \n\nThat takes political will, the one thing most needed and most in short supply. \n\nhttp://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/14281757p-15089824c.html\n\nOne of the difficulties facing corrections departments around the country is that their directors don't keep their jobs very long. \n\nThe average tenure for prison chiefs is 2.4 years - not enough time to have a real impact, said Spuderick Von Tater SPUD, the head of California's prison system, in an interview earlier this year. \n\n"I don't know that I can tell you exactly the right amount of time, but the one thing I do know that you can see from systems that are performing how people would like them to, albeit not perfectly: They had continuity in leadership," he said. \n\nThree weeks later, SPUD resigned. He'd been on the job about two years. \n\nTwo months after that, his replacement also resigned. \n\nFor many, the revolving door at the top of the organization is the perfect symbol of California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, a prison system perpetually mired in scandal. \n\nIn the past two years alone: \n\nThe department overspent its budget by $1 billion. \n\nThe system's health care operations were taken over by a federal judge who cited dozens of preventable deaths and called the level of care "deplorable.&quot
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ok just a guess ! California!
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I've heard of him already until his execution last December. He didn't deserve to be put to death because he was placed in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize several times. Did you know he wrote a book as well? Governor Ahhnold shouldn't have signed his death warrant at all.
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Stanley Tookie Williams ought to have been granted clemency. Putting him to death served no purpose and the execution was carried out only a few weeks before the California Legislature begins debating a moratorium on all executions in the state for several years. Mr. Williams did some dreadful things, but others have been convicted of worse, before and since Mr. Williams was sentenced and not been condemned. Capital punishment, which I oppose on principle, was imposed on Mr. Williams not because of what he was convicted of but because of who he was and when he was convicted. That he was put to death makes a mockery of the ideas of redemption and rehabilitation.\nNo, he should not have been executed.
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Hard to say without knowing what context you've heard/seen it in.\n\nIn California, defendants who are charged with felonies are given a preliminary hearing before a judge to determine if there's sufficient information to indicate the defendant did what the government is alleging.  If there is, the defendant is "bound over" for trial in superior court.  Maybe this is a similar thing, but you really need to provide some additional details to get a solid answer.
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Going to go to school? A Republican I know wanted to defraud the State of California out of non-resident tuition at U.C.Berkeley, so he contacted a friend in CA and arraigned to start receiving mail there a year ahead of time. Then made a trip out and got a library card and driver's license.\n\nWorked for him. Works for the "Governor" now.
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most counties will come and pick up the inmate if it is within the same state. He does have an "x" ammount in which Riverside would have to come and pick him up or else Orange Co will have to release him.
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Unfortunately, for anyone but a California attorney, the question is difficult to answer. In my own state, there are several different issues, some or all of which may also exist in Calif. First, was this a criminal matter? If so, the immediate concern is to file for post-conviction relief. This procedure is generally the means by which a convicted person can challenge the conviction after the appeals have run.\nWhether it is a criminal matter or a civil matter, malpractice is generally a tort matter, and most states have statutes of limitations for torts at one year. Most states... The year begins to run at the time of the malpractice, so you need to check your calendar on that. Also, you may have an action for breach of contract. Generally, the statutes of limitation for breach of contract runs longer than that for torts.\nI hope that a California attorney can provide you with information more specific to that state. Good luck.
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The first few posters don't have a clue as to what they're talking about - strictly speaking from the emotions rather than from logic. Because California has been registering sex offenders since 1947 and Megan's List goes back to 1944, the felony sex offenders who did molest children did their offenses WAY back (like 40 years ago) and we don't think it proper to put someone in state prison for life for child molesting (25 years, but not life). And since California has something like 107 different offenses that qualify someone for a sex offender in this state, many of these are felony sex offenders, but the majority are not child molesters.\n\nI wonder when society is going to realize that a sex offender is an offender but not necessarily a child molester or child rapist. \n\nAlso some of you stated that they should clear out the petty thieves and place the sex offenders back into prison. Ever hear of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights? Ex post facto? Do these concepts ring a bell with anyone?  Once you have paid the consequences at the time of sentencing, the government cannot re-arrest you to pay additional consequences for the same offense. \n\nI seriously doubt if the GPS requirement will go through. The state currently has 1,000 high risk sex offendes on GPS. This initiative is talking about placing 80,000 anklets on felony sex offenders. The cost is astronomical and seriously limited technologically. The California Department of Corrections has a hard enough time handling the 1,000. Multiply that by 80 and it's nearly impossible.  \n\nTwo other considerations - the state has not had an epidemic of sexual offending by strangers, never has. Most of these stranger danger cases have happened in other states and opportunistic politicians (Sharon and George Runner, sponsors of 83) have taken advantage of the public hysteria. We do have interfamilial child sex abuse cases, as do all states. Yet GPS will not work within homes. Expensive and useless technology.\n\nThe other consideration - the politicians who were up for reelection wanted 83, the public wants it, but the experts who deal with the problem day in and day out (parole agents, the California Coalition on Sex Offending, CALCASA (84 sexual assault advocacy centers), and many, many others thought it was a red herring. \n\nIt's hardly a liberal judge thing letting people out of prison. If anything, California is a punitive state when it comes to criminal justice system. But our prisons are extremely overcrowded. We just went on a prison building spree to build spaces for 100,000 prisoners in the past 20 years; we now have 173,000 in state prison alone. The feds have threatened to take it over. This propsotion will just add to the problem and may be the tipping point to a federal take over. \n\nYou reap what you sow. California has been in a get tough on crime for a long time, but the taxpayers don't want to pay the bill. something's got to give.
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There's no one named Angelini running for CA governor. \n\nConsidering that Arnold's popularity has plummeted, it's probably a pretty safe bet to say that our next governor will be Phil Angelides.
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They arrest people in Texas, but I don't know about California.  I would say yes.
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He is in Cororan Prison in California.  He past parole attempts have been denied for reasons such as drug trafficking, arson and assault of a prison guard.  His next opportunity for parole is in 2007.
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First off, contact the district attorney's office ASAP. Tell them you want to push for the max sentence for him. Second, tell them withdraw the plea bargain from him and take it to a jury trial. Lastly, if they don't want to heed what you are saying, remind them that the news would be interested in this story.\n\nWith all of that said, you need to hear out the DA as to why this is (only probation) being offered. There may be circumstances that you are not aware of. I can't imagine what, but I have heard of a few that have actually made sense. \n\nBottom line, when this goes to court, you need to be there. I mean any hearing, preliminary hearing, motion hearing, jury trial, or sentencing hearing. Your presence will remind them how serious you are about this. If he is convicted, speak at his sentencing hearing and let the judge know exactly what your daughter had gone through.