Calif. DAs Call for Three Strikes Reform: KQED and The Center for Investigative Reporting

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KQED's host Scott Shafer speaks with Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley and San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon about a new push to reform California's three strike law so that only violent offenders receive an automatic 25-to-life sentence.

Learn more about prison realignment in a joint KQED and Center for Investigative Reporting special documentary airing online and on air Friday, August 24.

Under pressure from the U.S. Supreme Court to reduce prison overcrowding and improve inmate healthcare, California Governor Jerry Brown started transferring authority for nearly 40,000 low-level convicts from state prisons to city and county systems. This documentary examines the growing disparity in county jails as they cope with a flood of inmates.

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