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1 maj 2021 · More than 10,000 inmates convicted of a second serious but nonviolent offense under the state’s "three strikes" law will be eligible for release after serving half their sentences.
14 lis 2024 · While California’s prison population has since declined to approximately 96,000, overcrowding persists, with some facilities operating at over 120% capacity. In 2020, San Quentin State Prison faced nearly 3,000 COVID-19 infections among inmates and staff, highlighting ongoing challenges in an overcrowded environment.
6 sie 2020 · State prison officials say as many as 17,600 California inmates may be released early due to the coronavirus, 70% more than previously estimated and a total that victims and police say...
4 wrz 2024 · In recent years, California has been working to reduce the number of inmates in its prisons. The prison population has been cut by about 50% in the last 2 decades. Despite these changes, the population of prisons across California, and San Quentin in particular, remain close to the designed capacity- sometimes surpassing it.
9 sie 2020 · California has focused on freeing nonviolent offenders to combat the spread of coronavirus in prisons, but some have committed violent crimes.
1 maj 2021 · 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...
12 sie 2020 · As of this week, nearly 9,000 California prisoners have tested positive for the virus and more than 50 have died, according to the corrections department. The 2,200 infected at San Quentin is equivalent to more than two-thirds of its current population.
