Ironic good news
Oct. 1st, 2012 12:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pastwatcherThe good news Governor Brown of CA has just signed two bills into law:
1. No shackling women prisoners who are giving birth. (I assume they define this as "prisoners in the women's prison")
2. When youth under 18 get a "life without parole" sentence, they can get it reviewed and maybe reduced to 25 years.
YAY!!!! Right?
The ironic part is, obviously, what it says about CA prisons that these bills were necessary. And now for what the hell to do about Props 34, 35 and 36.
1. No shackling women prisoners who are giving birth. (I assume they define this as "prisoners in the women's prison")
2. When youth under 18 get a "life without parole" sentence, they can get it reviewed and maybe reduced to 25 years.
YAY!!!! Right?
The ironic part is, obviously, what it says about CA prisons that these bills were necessary. And now for what the hell to do about Props 34, 35 and 36.
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Date: 2012-10-01 10:33 am (UTC)Though I would hope they would read this law as an injunction not to shackle anyone giving birth. The "women" stipulation sounds like an ill-considered careless addition to me, which (I would hope) they would waive in cases where it doesn't apply.
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Date: 2012-10-01 07:05 pm (UTC)