California to recognize gang members can change
… and participate in anger management and drug rehabilitation programs. Officials said that change was based on programs in seven other states. California is now the first to go a step farther by removing the gang designation entirely if the inmate …
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More rehab services for former Three Strikes inmates
Meanwhile, inmates freed early after voters eased the state's tough Three Strikes Law needed those beds for housing and treatment programs. Since the state had already paid for the beds, it made sense to allow those freed inmates to use them, even …
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