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29 Apr 2023, 3:48 am by Immigration Prof
Yesterday, the ACLU of Northern California filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court alleging that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) unlawfully discriminates against hundreds of people each year in its voluntary efforts to assist Immigration and Customs... [read post]
23 Apr 2023, 7:03 pm
Despite the number of women placed in California’s solitary confinement having reduced, the lack of accountability, transparency, and regulation from the CDCR continue to violate women's basic rights. [read post]
5 Dec 2022, 5:35 pm by Uthman Law Office
The recommendation by the Secretary of the CDCR (Secretary) was based on a change in the law that gives a trial court the discretion to strike a prior serious felony enhancement (see §§ 667, subd. [read post]
21 Aug 2022, 7:37 am by The Justice Firm
Instead, the new law requires that the Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations (CDCR) identify all incarcerated individuals serving sentences that include one of those enhancements. [read post]
2 Apr 2022, 2:55 pm by Uthman Law Office
C090767) 2022 WL 949796, at *1–2 Summary: McMurray appealed the trial court’s denial of a recommendation made by the Secretary (Secretary) of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) under former Penal Code section 11 that the trial court consider recalling defendant’s sentence and resentencing him in light of changes made to section 12022.53 which gave judges discretion to strike enhancements for the personal use of a firearm. [read post]
13 Oct 2021, 5:50 pm by Uthman Law Office
The Secretary of Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) submitted a letter to trial court recommending that defendant’s aggregate sentence of 13 years be recalled and that defendant be resentenced under statutory amendment authorizing courts to strike or dismiss firearm enhancements in interest of justice. [read post]
2 Oct 2021, 6:30 pm by Uthman Law Office
CDCR argues this case is moot because Marti  has already incurred the punishment for the decision and any future impact on him is speculative. [read post]
26 Sep 2021, 11:58 am by Uthman Law Office
Mendez claimed that the trial court abused its discretion by failing to adequately weigh his postconviction record and by not giving him an opportunity to be heard on  the recommendation by the CDCR to recall his sentence. [read post]
18 May 2021, 10:13 am by Ally Keegan
Assembly Bill 717, introduced in the California State Assembly in February 2021, would require the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to provide all prisoners California ID cards or driver’s licenses upon their release from custody. [read post]
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) provided anonymized data at the person-day level for all California prison residents from December 22, 2020, when the CDCR vaccination program began, through March 4, 2021. [read post]
18 Apr 2021, 11:43 am by Uthman Law Office
On December 9, 2009, they filed a pro se lawsuit challenging the conditions of their confinement charging  CDCR officials with violating their First, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. [read post]
9 Jan 2021, 7:26 pm by Uthman Law Office
CDCR incarcerates people convicted of violent felonies, supervises those released to parole, and provides rehabilitation programs to help them reintegrate into the community with the tools to be drug-free, healthy, and employable members of society. [read post]
3 Jan 2021, 7:42 pm by Uthman Law Office
December 28, 2020 — P.3d —- 2020 WL 7690154  Proposition 57- nonviolent felony parole consideration In 2009, a three-judge federal district court panel ordered the CDCR “to reduce the prisoner population to 137.5% of the adult institution’s total design capacity. [read post]
27 Nov 2020, 2:03 pm by Uthman Law Office
Canady asserted the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) regulation implementing Prop. 57 was inconsistent with the Proposition. [read post]
Additionally, he argued that the CDCR acted with deliberate indifference to the risks to the prison population posed by COVID-19 by not taking steps to reduce the population. [read post]
21 Oct 2020, 9:40 pm by The Justice Firm
Under Prop 57, CDCR incentivizes inmates to take responsibility for their own rehabilitation with credit-earning opportunities for sustained good behavior, as well as in-prison program and activities participation. [read post]