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California Supreme Court: CDCR Cannot Exclude Nonviolent Sex Offenders From Proposition 57 Parole Consideration
Loaded on Jan. 1, 2022
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2022, page 50
Filed under:
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Conditions of,
Sex Offender Classification.
Location:
California.
On December 28, 2020, the Supreme Court of California held that California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) regulations excluding nonviolent sex offenders with from parole consideration under Proposition 57, the Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016 (Cal. Const. art. I, § 32), are invalid as the statute expressly ...
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