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Proposition 57: Get out of Jail Free measure
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There’s a measure on the ballot you’re going to want to pay extra attention to on Nov. 8.It’s Proposition 57. The measure’s official title is, “The California Parole for Non-Violent Criminals and Juvenile Court Trial Requirements Initiative.The operative words — or at least they should be— are “non-violent criminals.”The words “non-violent criminals” conjures up images of shoplifters, drug users charged with possession, auto burglary and other such crimes.You wouldn’t think of domestic violence, involuntary manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter, assaulting someone with a deadly weapon, exploding a bomb with intent to injure or certain sexual assaults and rapes.Actually it doesn’t matter what you think. It’s what the California Penal Code says.