DCR 3 NEWS AT SIX STARTS
RIGHT NOW.
KELLIE:
A LOCAL REACTION FROM AN
INMATE RELEASED BY PROP 47.
TONIGHT WE FIND OUT WHAT
HAPPENED TO HIM AND THOUSANDS OF
OTHER INMATES.
GULSTAN: MEANWHILE, A MOVE
UNDERWAY TO OVERTURN SOME OF THE
PROVISIONS OF PROP 47.
THE CONTROVERSY OVER THE
SO-CALLED SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS AND
SCHOOLS ACT IS HEATING UP.
KELLIE: THAT MAN FIRST RELEASED
FROM JAIL MONTHS AGO IS RAISING
NEW CONCERNS.
MIKE LUERY IS LIVE IN ROSEVILLE
WITH THE LATEST.
MIKE: WE WERE
HERE BACK IN
NOVEMBER TO SHOW YOU SOME OF THE
VERY FIRST INMATES RELEASED FROM
JAIL UNDER PROP 47.
THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE
NONVIOLENT OFFENDERS, BUT EVEN
THOUGH CALIFORNIANS VOTED IN
FAVOR OF THE MEASURE, IT TURNS
OUT THAT HASN'T ALWAYS BEEN THE
CASE.
KEVIN IS BACK IN THE PLACER
COUNTY JAIL AGAIN AFTER HIS
EARLY RELEASE UNDER PROP 47.
HERE'S WHAT HE TOLD US LAST
NOVEMBER.
I WILL GO KISS MY WIFE.
MIKE: HE IS NOW CHARGED WITH
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
THE SECOND CHANCE DASHED.
PERHAPS NOT SURPRISING.
I WILL TAKE IT FOR WHAT IT IS
WORTH, GETTING OUT WITH A NEW
CHANCE.
CAN'T PROMISE ANYTHING BUT I
MEAN WELL.
MIKE: ON FRIDAY HE AGREED TO BE
INTERVIEWED IN JAIL BUT CHANGED
HIS MIND.
MANY ADVOCATES POINT TO HIM
AS
AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT IS WRONG WITH
PROP 47 IN WHICH THOUSANDS OF
INMATES HAVE THEIR NONVIOLENT
CONVICTIONS REDUCED.
IS ARE NOT ALWAYS NONVIOLENT
OFFENDERS.
MIKE: BUT SUPPORTERS
WITH 35
YEARS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT BELIEVE
THAT CALIFORNIA HAS TO BE
SMARTER IN MANAGING ITS PRESENT
RESOURCES.
IT WAS TRAGIC.
THE REALITY IS THIS IS GOING TO
HAPPEN.
THERE IS NOTHING THAT IS
ENTIRELY BULLETPROOF.
MIKE: SINCE IT PASSED,
LESSER
COUNTY HAS RELEASED 28 INMATES
AND FOUR ARE BACK IN CUSTODY,
THE RETURN RATE OF 14%.
9% RETURN IN SAN JOAQUIN
COUNTY,
THAT IN SACRAMENTO IT WAS 25 OF
42 INMATES.
THE RETURN RATE OF 60%.
AREA NOT A BIT SURPRISED.
THIS IS THE MOST POORLY WRITTEN
PROPOSITION.
MIKE: THIS WOMAN HAS BEEN A
CONSISTENT CRITIC.
TONY IS ONE OF THE PEOPLE
BENEFITING.
BEFORE I COULDN'T
APPLY FOR
ANYTHING BECAUSE OF THE
MISDEMEANOR.
MIKE: HE IS NOW TAKING
CLASSES
AT A COLLEGE AFTER SERVING 20
YEARS FOR PETTY THEFT, NOW
CONSIDERED MISDEMEANORS.
SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE
NUMBERS.
THEY SHOW THAT MORE THAN 3000
INMATES HAVE BEEN RELEASED FROM
PRISONS, IN JUST 14 ARE BACK
IN CUSTODY.
THAT IS A RETURN RATE OF LESS
THAN 1%.
KELLIE:
REAL QUICK -- HOW DO THE
NUMBERS COMPARED TO THE
STATEWIDE AVERAGE?
MIKE:
THE RECIDIVISM RATE IS
ABOUT 61%, CONTRASTED WITH LESS
THAN 1% FOR THOSE RELEASED UNDER
PROP 47.
THAT IS A DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE.
KELLIE: WE KNOW PROP 47 IS UNDER
ATTACK IN THE STATE CAPITAL.
MIKE: THERE ARE SEVERAL BILLS
DESIGNED TO "FIX" IT, ONE
INVOLVING THE THEFT OF HANDGUNS.
ALSO THE USE OF A DATE RAPE DRUG