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 Author

HONORABLE JAMES ARDAIZ, Presiding Judge5th District Court of Appeal (Ret.)SANDRA HUTCHENS, SheriffOrange CountyCOLLENE THOMPSON CAMPBELL, FounderMemory of Victims Everywhere

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

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