Gov. Brown To Seek November Ballot Initiative To Relax Mandatory Prison Sentences

Gov. Jerry Brown, who is responsible for the three-strikes system in California, and who has since referred to it as “an abysmal failure” (which it is), is finally seeking to undue it and to return discretion to the judges who are familiar with the facts and mitigating circumstances of each matter.  A LA Times article is here: 

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-jerry-brown-sentencing-reform-ballot-20160127-story.html