The Sentencing and Parole Reform Statute would, if passed, accomplish the following:

1. Establish simple criteria within the penal code 3041 which must be met in order to establish suitability for parole.
2. Establish a minimum eligible parole date of seven years for ALL prisoners with indeterminate prison terms (P.C. 3046).
3. Establish a binding matrix within Penal Code Section 3041 which would require that the Board of Parole hearings set a Parole Release Date for ALL prisoners currently serving indeterminate prison terms and release those prisoners on that date.
4. Amend Penal Code 3041.5 to do away with five year parole denials.
5. Provide for those prisoners who received a life sentence under the three strikes law for anything other than murder, to be re-sentenced to a determinate prison term and receive two days off that sentence for every one day of service.
6. Provide for those prisoners whose sentences were doubled, tripled, or who received consecutive sentences under the three strikes law to be re-sentenced under the newly amended sections 667 and 1170.12 to determinate terms and give them two days service for one also.
7. Provide for those prisoners currently serving determinate prison terms who are currently serving 85% of their sentence or doing day for day, to receive two days off for every one day of service.
8. All of the above mentioned amendments and provisions would be retroactively applicable to all cases whether one was sentenced yesterday or 50 years ago.

To learn about the history and consequences of the Three Strikes Law, read our article:

"Our Position on the Three Strikes Law " by Markus E. Tatum

For the complete text of the initiative, originally entitled when submitted "California Prison Population Reduction Act of 2008":

Sentencing and Parole Reform. Statute