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Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, has dramatically altered a prison proposal passed by the state Senate, removing some of the most contentious provisions of the Senate bill – including a plan for a new commission to set sentencing guidelines.
Sacramento Bee
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Monday it will issue 1,300 new layoff notices in Sacramento, Amador, Fresno and elsewhere after the assumed $1.2 billion cut to the department's budget.
Department chief of staff Brett H. Morgan announced details of the layoff plan in a letter to staff this afternoon.
LA Times
The action was taken by Assembly Speaker Karen Bass. It was unclear whether Senate leader Darrell Steinberg would go along with the limited version. The sentencing review is one of his priorities.
Sacramento Bee
Willie Horton's shadow haunts the Capitol as lawmakers wrestle with how to cut $1.2 billion from state prisons without endangering public safety.
LA Times
The proposal, opposed by the GOP, would cut the time lesser offenders spend behind bars and on parole. The bill stalls in the Assembly, where a watered-down version may be considered.
Contra Costa Times
Area police officials are part of a chorus of state law enforcement officers opposed to the governor's plan for the early release of 27,000 prison inmates
www.californiascapitol.com
The budget for the fiscal year that began July 1, assumes that state prison spending will be reduced by nearly $1.2 billion – but doesn’t say how more than $631 million of that savings will be achieved.
LA Times
In a visit to the Chino facility where inmates rioted Aug. 8, the governor complains that politicians have "swept the problem under the rug for so long."
Capitol Weekly
There are currently more than ten thousand vacant peace officer positions in California. And we can’t fill them, even in this depressed economy, with an unemployment rate of 11.6 percent.
Capitol Weekly
Legislative Democrats will push a commission to create a new system for prison sentences as part of Democrats’ prison overhaul plan, which will be voted on the floor of both houses Thursday.
Detroit Free Press
California won't be sending its state prisoners to fill the maximum security prison in Standish, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm said today.
CBS 2 News
You can help pick the replacement for L.A. Police Chief William Bratton.
LA Times
Two weeks after federal judges ordered California to reduce its prison population, an arm of the Schwarzenegger administration is set to vote on increased funding to police anti-drug units, potentially putting even more offenders behind bars.
Sacramento Bee
Over objections from Republican lawmakers, the Legislature plans to take up a majority-vote prison package Thursday that is designed to reduce the state's inmate population by 27,300 and is backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Daily News
In his first six weeks as city attorney, Carmen Trutanich is slowly learning the way of big-city politics as he and his staff push his agenda.
Trutanich has tried to adopt the same low profile as his main political mentor, District Attorney Steve Cooley, who generally stays out of the headlines.
LA Times
Sgt. James Crowley, the white Massachusetts officer who arrested black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., setting off a national debate about race, spoke briefly Monday at a convention of police officers in Long Beach where he was greeted with whistles and applause.
Associated Press
Against a backdrop of deep fiscal distress, several state lawmakers, including those representing the San Fernando Valley, rewarded their employees with pay hikes during the first half of the year, an Associated Press review of legislative pay records showed.
Sacramento Bee
State officials wrestling with efforts to reduce California's prison population - both because of budget cuts and federal court orders - are considering increased use of GPS monitoring to help keep some inmates from being returned to prison.
LA Times
Strategies to close a $530-million budget shortfall appear to be in jeopardy as plans to get union concessions falter and contract talks with police and firefighters grow increasingly acrimonious.
LA Times Opinion
Times editorial writer Marjorie Miller asked some of the LAPD's chief critics, supporters and stakeholders to weigh in on what qualities are needed in a new police chief.
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