SACRAMENTO — California’s prisons have released 2,700 inmates after their felonies were reduced to misdemeanors under a ballot measure that voters approved in November, easing punishment for some property and drug crimes. The mass inmate release over the past four months under Proposition 47 has resolved one of the state’s most ingrained problems: prison overcrowding, state prisons chief told a at a legislative hearing Thursday. 47 has allowed the state to comply with a court-ordered inmate reduction mandate a year ahead of schedule, Beard said. But law enforcement leaders say they’ve already seen an increase in crime, and they believe it’s because of Prop. 47 allows inmates serving sentences for crimes affected by the reduced penalties to apply to be resentenced and released early. Those crimes include shoplifting, grand theft and writing bad checks, among others.

About 150 inmates a week are being released under the relaxed laws. Initially, 250 to 300 inmates a week were being let out. 4 freed early in S.F. Four people sentenced in San Francisco had their felonies reduced and were released from prison under Prop. 47, according to the San Francisco district attorney’s office. Prisoners released under Prop. 47 are required to be on parole for one year unless a judge decides otherwise.

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California now has 112,500 inmates in its prisons, which is 1,300 inmates below the final cap the state was required to meet by February 2016. Impact lauded “We are happy to see the impact it’s having,” said, executive director of the Oakland group Vote Safe, which sponsored Prop. “The intent of the measure was to stop wasting precious resources on incarcerating people in state prisons for low-level, nonviolent crimes and reinvesting that in treatment and prevention at the local level.” Opponents of Prop. 47, including the union lobbying group the Police Officers, argued that the measure would result in higher crime rates as more criminals return to the streets. The groups also pointed out concerns that felony possessions of drugs commonly referred to as date-rape drugs would become misdemeanors. Download Undangan Khitanan Crd Gratis.

Last month, lawmakers introduced a bill that would allow voters to restore felony penalties for possession of those drugs, such as Rohypnol and GHB. In San Francisco, Suhr said burglaries are up 20 percent, larceny and theft up 40 percent, auto theft is up more than 55 percent, between 2010 and 2014. Suhr said those crimes shot up largely due to prison realignment, Gov. ’s program that changed sentencing, sending thousands of convicted felons to county jail or probation instead of state prison. Suhr said auto burglaries are up quite a bit this year, and he believes it’s because of the Prop.