Prison System Mistakenly Adds to Inmate Firefighter Sentences
The good conduct system California recently implemented is mistakenly adding time to inmate firefighters’ sentences. Officials have fixed the malfunction and are working to recalculate the sentences.
July 13, 2021 • (TNS) California prison officials created new good conduct credits in May designed to speed up the releases of more than 76,000 inmates, but one segment of the prison inmate population inmate firefighters are seeing the length of their sentences increased, at least on paper, inmate advocates and family members say. We ve been receiving lots of complaints from people whose loved ones had their release dates lengthened by significant periods of time, sometimes months, if not a year or more, said Don Specter, executive director of the Berkeley-based Prison Law Office that advocates for inmates.
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Michael McGough, The Sacramento Bee
July 12, 2021
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California Governor Gavin Newsom wears a face mask as he prepares to give a briefing after touring a Covid-19 vaccination site on February 22, 2021 in Long Beach, California. - US President Joe Biden will lead a remembrance ceremony Monday to mark the dark milestone of 500,000 American Covid-19 deaths, but plans for easing the lockdown in Britain and a surge in vaccinations worldwide prompted growing optimism. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
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SANTA ANA (CNS) - Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer today called for reforms in the firefighting program for state prison inmates in response to one inmate s joyriding spree in a Cal Fire fire truck on the Fourth of July.
Cameron Zoltan Horvath, 31, is accused of going off-roading in a stolen fire truck after leaving his assignment battling a brush fire in El Dorado County on Sunday, according to the District Attorney s Office. Horvath attempted to carjack another vehicle when the fire truck got stuck in a ditch, the District Attorney s Office reported.