{"id":2459,"date":"2016-09-27T13:59:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T20:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2018-04-02T19:10:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T02:10:38","slug":"vote-no-on-prop-57-early-prison-release-xyz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/vote-no-on-prop-57-early-prison-release-xyz\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote NO On Prop 57: Early Prison Release – X,Y&Z"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>n August 2009, a federal 3-judge panel ordered California to cap its prison population at 137.5% of capacity by releasing nearly 43,000 inmates. That threshold was met in January 2015, when the state reported that the institutional population had been reduced to 113,463 inmates.<\/p>\n

Much of the credit for that record reduction has been directed to 2011\u2019s Public Safety Realignment legislation, and Proposition 47 which was affirmed by voters in 2014. Public Safety Realignment<\/a> transferred responsibility for supervising certain kinds of felony offenders and state prison parolees from state prisons and state parole agents to county jails and probation officers. Proposition 47<\/a> reduced certain drug possession felonies to misdemeanors.<\/p>\n

Starting January 1, 2015, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) began a\u00a0new early parole determination process<\/a>, evaluating \u201cnonviolent second-strikers\u201d for parole once they have served only 50 percent of their sentence or are within 12 months of having served 50 percent of their actual sentence.\u00a0The following fake \u201cnon-violent\u201d offenders were released under this program.<\/p>\n

This begs the question: Who is left to release under Proposition 57 if it passes in November? The answer is not pretty.<\/p>\n

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Yeng Xiong<\/p><\/div>\n

Xiong, Yeng<\/strong>: Xiong is a self-admitted member of a criminal street gang who has previously committed a violent felony – a well-planned armed take-over bank robbery – with his fellow gang members in 2008. Despite being on parole for that armed bank robbery, Xiong absconded in 2013, and when located by parole agents, was found to be in possession of a semi-automatic handgun as well as MDMA. \u00a0Such conduct demonstrates not just an extreme risk to public safety, but shows that Xiong has no interest in complying with the rules and regulations of parole or in becoming a productive, law-abiding member of society.\u00a0District Attorney\u2019s Letter Opposing Early Release<\/a><\/p>\n

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Travis Coleman York<\/p><\/div>\n

York, Travis Coleman<\/strong>:\u00a0York has a history of serious felony convictions, including vehicle theft, larceny from a person, weapons possession, and first degree burglary. Furthermore, in the incident that led to his most recent incarceration, York while committing yet another first degree burglary, attempted to punch the homeowner who chased him from the home. A search of the trunk of the vehicle York used to get to the burglary, revealed a loaded shotgun. When York was arrested on the felony burglary warrant, he resisted arrest and was found in the possession of a weapon along with indicia of drug sales. His behavior in prison is less than exemplary as well. \u00a0A review of York’s criminal history reveals a history of disciplinary actions involving serious violations, including; refusing to undergo drug testing in November of 2013, possession of a cellular phone and charger in November of 2013, and falsification of prison documents in October of 2014.\u00a0District Attorney\u2019s Letter Opposing Early Release<\/a><\/p>\n

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Charles James Young<\/p><\/div>\n

Young, Charles James<\/strong>:\u00a0In January 2002, Young was convicted of misdemeanor assault and was placed on informal probation. Less than 2-months later Young was convicted of felony possession of narcotics for sale. He violated his probation in September 2005, after receiving another conviction for possession of narcotics for sale. \u00a0\u00a0Young was found in violation of his probation in January 2008, July 2008, and March 2009. \u00a0In July 2011, he was arrested for residential burglary of an ex\u00ad girlfriend’s house. The victim reported that he broke into her house and stole her property. She further stated that she was fearful of the, as he is a G-Mobb gang member who had previously threatened her and her family. Young was convicted of residential burglary and received two years in prison and paroled in November 2012. On October 29, 2013 Young was the passenger in a car being driven by another gang member, which was involved in a short police pursuit. \u00a0At the end of the chase Young foot bailed from the car, dropping a loaded Tec-9 handgun on the ground. After his arrest, he acknowledged that he was a G-Mobb gang member. At the time of this offense Young was also a parolee at large.\u00a0District Attorney\u2019s Letter Opposing Early Release<\/a><\/p>\n

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Daniel Jerome Young<\/p><\/div>\n

Young, Daniel Jerome<\/strong>:\u00a0Young has made a career of victimizing others. \u00a0He has been a menace to the community since the age of 19 when he began committing misdemeanor burglaries. \u00a0From 1984 until the present, Young has committed a vast array of crimes that include: burglary (numerous), grand theft person, petty theft with a prior, narcotics possession, \u00a0assault with a knife (two separate occasions) , check fraud, trespassing, vandalism (numerous), and possession of a knife. Young has spent a large portion of his adult life in and out of both County Jail and Prison because of his many arrests and subsequent convictions. Young has proven time and again that he will not change his behavior and become a productive member of society. Young has picked up either a substantive offense or violated his parole in the following years: 1984, 1985, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2011, and 2015. Young was in and out of prison from 1994 until his discharge in 2000 and again from 2011 until 2013. District Attorney\u2019s Letter Opposing Early Release<\/a><\/p>\n

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Anthony Zamarron<\/p><\/div>\n

Zamarron, Anthony<\/strong>:\u00a0In April 2008, Zamarran identified himself as a gang member and then proceeded to smash a glass bottle over the victims head causing him to lose consciousness. Zamarran immediately began choking his unconscious victim. When the victim\u2019s female friend attempted to intervene and stop the attack, Zamarran began striking her in the face and head. Zamarran was sentenced to two years in prison for this brutal assault\u2014which he would not fully serve. In the early morning hours of September 18th, 2009, Zamarron and a friend knocked on the door of an acquaintance with whom they had been doing cocaine in the preceding hours. The unsuspecting victim answered the door under the impression that Zamarron had forgotten a cell phone inside his residence. However, once the door was opened, the two men rushed the victim, bound him with duct tape, and demanded he give them $6,000 that they knew he had in his possession.\u00a0 Since he was unwilling to surrender the money, Zamarron grabbed a hammer and began striking the helpless man in the back and head. Fortunately for the victim, he was able to reach into his back pocket and dial 9-1-1, allowing the emergency operator to hear the ordeal as it occurred. Officers arrived and the victim was saved from any more serious injury than had already been inflicted.\u00a0District Attorney\u2019s Letter Opposing Early Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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