Proposition 47: Misdemeanor Crimes

Anyone convicted under the proposed law would face an automatic increase in prison sentence, and some homicides would become death penalty eligible(Journal Record, Staff). I believe this method might not be successful due to many homicides committed by gang members which would cause many young men to face the death penalty.

            In conclusion, Big Time Toymaker entered into an implied contract because of their actions of requesting the draft of distribution agreement.  In addition, they provided funding for the exclusive negotiation agreement.  They also followed up with an email stating all terms have been agreed upon.   Because of these elements in motion, it makes it a valid contract as both parties acknowledged the terms without them being officialized through contract and signatures.

As for the Sb 1070 implemented by our own Governor Janet Brewer, that was originally enacted to improve our economy, safeguard our neighborhood, and secure our borders was intended to put ease to our state; it caused some turmoil. Though, the success was strong in the sense of securing our border, and making those neighborhoods a little safer to live in, causing some economic downfalls to hit our state; by these entrepreneurs closing shop and move back to Mexico in fear of deportation. Furthermore, it took way for our state revenue, for we no longer had state and federal funds flowing into our coffers for these immigrants being here; instead we were in jeopardy of losing this state and federal funding.

What would you do if you arrived at work one day and your supervisor told you that you need to increase your productivity? What if he or she told you that you would not be given more time during the day to accomplish this? Also, that you must begin to make the changes immediately with visible results within 48 hours. What if you discovered you have a serious illness that requires special medication that is extremely expensive? Additionally, in order to live you must begin the treatment immediately otherwise you will die. Furthermore, in order to pay for the treatment you must figure out how to decrease your expenses by fifty percent within 48 hours. What expenses do you eliminate? Do you eliminate food, gas for your car, your daughter 's ballet class, or your son 's little league? This is what happened to the state of California when it was ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court to reduce its prison population in order to alleviate extreme overcrowding. What is the state 's answer? Proposition 47.

With Raise the Age being a controversial issue this year during the budget, bill A.3080 has a higher chance of going to the Assembly floor. This bill will limit the length of time prisoners are placed in solitary confinement, restrict prisoners from the special population from being placed in solitary confinement, develop rehabilitation units to help prisoners placed in confinement, and make facilities require training for their staff and report their solitary confinement numbers. It will lead to a reduction in costs for prisons because there will be fewer prisoners placed in solitary confinement with the restrictions. Overall, the whole state will be affected by bill A.3080 because there are prisons located throughout the state and the prisoners come from different parts of the

What will happen if proposition 55 (prop. 55) fails and we won’t be able to tax the wealthiest Californians? David Kersten, in “Leading Taxpayer Advocate Makes Strong Case Against Prop.55 Tax Hike,” finds that “Accelerated Exodus” --a name for prop. 55-- is basically doubling the size of prop. 30, a passed proposition that increased income tax on the wealthiest Californians in 2012. Essentially, prop. 55 is a permanent increase in income taxes; this is causing quite a stir in the state’s business circle because it will accelerate the exodus, or removal, of capital and jobs leaving California. Prop. 55 shows taxes are never temporary; California Senator Jerry Brown promised in 2012 that the increases would be temporary, petering out after 2018.

The article, Prop. 47 got thousands out of prison. Now, $103 million in savings will go towards keeping them out, speaks of the positive effects the proposition could have on communities. It states that although the proposition has come to be controversial over the fact that several crime rates have increased due to the lenient nature of the proposition, the enactment of such is still a great win. This being due to the new investment in rehabilitation programs that will open doors for troubled individuals to truly make changes in their life that they were unable to do so before due to prior lack of such support.

The purpose of the following paper is to explain California’s Proposition 21. This writer will explain the pros and cons about this proposition; as well as what voters voted for when they chose “yes” for this proposition. Research will be done in order to explain what the reasoning for Proposition 21, and the changes that occurred when it enacted in the State of California. The following information will be provided as well; prosecution of juveniles in adult court, juvenile incarceration and detention, changes in juvenile probation, juvenile record confidentiality and criminal history, gang provisions, and serious and violent felony offenses. In addition, the following paper will also explain the impact under this proposition

Winning the lottery should not be dictated by the action of an individual. Although many felons don’t turn their lives around, there are a significant portion of inmates who successfully rehabilitate their lives upon release. For instance, there are many felons who leave behind their life of crime, wanting to live a normal life. Furthermore, banning all felons for the actions of recurrent offenders only further criminalizes felons in today’s society. In the end, lotteries are not a moral litmus test, rather it is simply a form of

The California Youth Authority which is now known as the California Division of Juvenile Justice has gone through years of criticism. This institution is part of the division of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation that offers several programs such as education, training, and treatment for California’s most serious youth offenders. The California Youth Authority became the go to alternative for the increasing rate of juvenile offenders that committed the most heinous crimes. This institution first opened in 1943 as a reform school, and today it functions similar to adult state prisons. Since that time over thousands of inmates were incarcerated inside of the California Youth Authority. In March of 2000, proposition

The right to vote is at the core of what it means to participate in one’s democracy. The 15th, 19th, and 26th amendments brought more people into the voting population by explicitly extending the right to vote to all races, genders, and people over the age of 18. However, a significant number of people are unable to vote today because of their criminal background. The increase of felon disenfranchisement was strategically coupled with the rise of mass incarceration and should be outlawed either by congressional act or by constitutional amendment.

As drug-related convictions are becoming more and more common, the lower class, which typically is involved in such convictions, becomes less represented in elections because they are not allowed to vote (Democratic Contraction? Political Consequences of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States). Disenfranchisement is silencing voices that have a right to be heard. Felon disenfranchisement would be effective if used in cases of serious crimes such as homicide, but for small offenses such as drug possession, it should not be used.

Everyone around you, your closed friends, loved ones and community has already supported the new law and has voted in favor of it. So if you are selfish, cold hearted, you don’t have morals or a conscious and you don’t care about killing innocent, homeless, impoverished and disadvantaged people then this law is perfect for

According to a source at Lawcenter.giffords.orga; “18 year olds account for a disproportionate percentage of arrests for homicide and violent crimes”. Even though 18 year olds are legally an adult they are still teenagers who don’t know much from what’s to come in the world. In my experience an average of Americans are killed with guns each year by young adults. It’s all I see in the news whenever there is a shooting anywhere in the word. By restricting the age of buying a gun this can solve a quarter of the violence happening now. Remember all the lives that has been lost over the years by a mass shooting caused by young adults who don’t know what there doing when they pull that trigger and take a

On April 10, 2017, as part of FY 2018 Budget, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed legislation raising the age for criminal accountability. New York state was one of the states that no matter what the offense was it still processed anyone in the age of sixteen and seventeen as adults in the criminal justice system. Although the legislation raised the age for criminal responsibility, protestors still think that it hasn’t done much for the teenagers who have committed a criminal act. The bill states that sixteen and or seventeen-years-old who have committed a felony crime will still be tried in court as an adult, and those who have committed misdemeanor crime will not be tried in court as an adult. Such bill will highly impact society, the criminal