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CA inmate firefighters believe their release dates were postponed to have them fight more fires
California inmate firefighters win change in release date rules after months of complaintshttps://www.sacbee.com/news/california/fires/article36818133.html
Firefighter inmates have complained since May that changes in good-conduct credits appeared to have added months and sometimes years to their projected release dates without explanation, and some complained they believed prison officials were trying to keep firefighting inmates longer to help deal with the California’s siege of wildfires.
“The previous proposed changes, while well-intentioned, created a lot of unnecessary operational challenges, as well as confusion in both our population and their families, because they were getting release date calculations at the end of every month, instead of at the beginning of their sentence,” CDCR Secretary Kathleen Allison said in a statement Wednesday. “We listened to these concerns, and made the decision to revert the credit-earning calculation so that people can see their release dates up front.” The original change in how credits were calculated resulted in fire camp inmates suddenly seeing their expected release dates pushed out without explanation, inmates and family members said.
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Inmate Donnell Marin was housed in a fire camp in Sylmar and was told in April that his projected release date was July 23. After the regulations took effect May 1, his release date was changed to April 2022 and, later, to September 2022. Inmate Sean McGivern had a similar complaint, telling The Sacramento Bee in September that his paperwork showed he had “zero days remaining” on his sentence but was still in custody and could not get an explanation of why he had not been released. McGivern said that after inmates raised complaints and The Bee began inquiring about the issue fire camp officials began using Wite-Out to obscure the “time remaining” line on paperwork. Both inmates have since been released, CDCR online records show.
Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article256428806.html#storylink=cpy