Proposition Summary
Allows parole consideration for persons convicted of nonviolent felonies, upon completion of prison term for their primary offense as defined. • Authorizes Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to award sentence credits for rehabilitation, good behavior, or educational achievements. • Requires Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to adopt regulations to implement new parole and sentence credit provisions and certify they enhance public safety. • Provides juvenile court judges shall make determination, upon prosecutor motion, whether juveniles age 14 and older should be prosecuted and sentenced as adults for specified offenses. • Net state savings likely in the tens of millions of dollars annually, primarily due to reductions in the prison population. Savings would depend on how certain provisions are implemented. • Net county costs of likely a few million dollars annually.
Proposition Number
57
Year
2016
Document Type
Proposition
Pass/Fail
Pass
Popular Vote Results
Y: 6672074; A: 63.7; N: 3800193; B: 36.3
Election Type
General Election
Proposition Type
Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute
For Author
EDMUND G. BROWN JR., Governor of CaliforniaMARK BONINI, PresidentChief Probation Officers of CaliforniaDIONNE WILSON, widow of police officer killed in the lineof duty
Against Author
MARTIN HALLORAN, PresidentSan Francisco Police Officers AssociationGEORGE HOFSTETTER, PresidentAssociation of Los Angeles Deputy SheriffsSTEPHEN WAGSTAFFE, PresidentCalifornia District Attorneys Association
Rebuttal Against Author
EDMUND G. BROWN JR., Governor of CaliforniaMARK BONINI, PresidentChief Probation Officers of CaliforniaDIONNE WILSON, widow of police officer killed in the lineof duty
Recommended Citation
Criminal Sentences. Parole. Juvenile Criminal Proceedings and Sentencing. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute. California Proposition 57 (2016).
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