NBC Bay Area’s Stephen Stock visits with San Quentin inmates for a conversation on sentence enhancements. But despite those reforms, California prisons remain overcrowded, standing at 133 percent of designed capacity. The effort resulted in a population that currently stands at just over 127,000 inmates, down from a high of about 173,000 in 2006. In 2010, California’s prison system had become so overcrowded the United States Supreme Court ruled that being incarcerated in one the state’s thirty three prisons amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.Īfter the Supreme Court’s order, efforts began to reduce the prison population by releasing many low-level offenders or moving them to county jails. Those critics say the system has led to overcrowding of the state’s prisons, unfair and unjust prison sentences and inequity in sentences depending on the prosecutor and jurisdiction.
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An investigation into California’s criminal sentencing structure by NBC Bay Area discovered tens of thousands of convicted criminals serving time in prison longer than the sentence for their original, underlying crime, all because of California’s system of sentence enhancements.Ĭritics and researchers say dozens of ‘extra’ provisions exist in California’s penal code which can be added on as sentence enhancements at the discretion of prosecutors.
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