Posts Tagged ‘ SB 9 ’

August 31, 2011 - Following up on last week's coverage of some San Francisco neighborhoods' opposition to the development of additional transitional housing units for former foster youth, the San Francisco Bay Guardian wrote an eloquent editorial encouraging the SF Board of Supes to get behind the projects. Meanwhile, on Friday, SB 9 (Yee) fell 5 votes short in the Assembly. The bill would have allowed incarcerated Californians sentenced to Life...Read more »

August 23, 2011 - SB 9, authored by Leland Yee of San Francisco, is set for vote on the Assembly Floor this week. The bill would allow some Californians sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for crimes committed while they were juveniles to petition the court after 15 years of incarceration, potentially allowing some individuals to receive a new minimum sentence of 25 years to life - and thus a slim chance of parole sometime before...Read more »