CALIFORNIA’S FAR-LEFT GOVERNOR STARTS TERM OFF ON RIGHT FOOT

Gov. Newsom Blocks Parole For San Diego Police Killer Jesus Cecena

LAPPL News Watch
January 24, 2019

Gov. Gavin Newsom has reversed the decision by a state parole board to release Jesus Cecena, who was convicted of murder as a teenager in 1979 for gunning down San Diego Police Officer Archie Buggs.

The decision marks the fourth time in the last five years that the governor’s office has reversed the decision by parole board members to free the 57-year-old Cecena.

Cecena shot Buggs to death during a routine traffic stop the evening of Nov. 4, 1978. After being convicted of first-degree murder, he was sentenced to life without parole.

His sentence was modified to life with the possibility of parole in 1982 after an appellate court ruled that juveniles could not be sentenced to no-parole terms.
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CALIFORNIA’S FAR-LEFT GOVERNOR STARTS TERM OFF WITH FAR-LEFT YOUTH PRISON PROPOSAL
California Governor Seeks To Transform Youth Prisons

LAPPL News Watch
January 24, 2019

Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed Tuesday to change the way California’s juvenile prisons are overseen, eventually closing facilities to cut what he called the “ludicrous” cost.

“If we’re going to get serious about changing the trajectory of the lives of these young children, I think we need to do it through a different lens and not the traditional corrections lens,” Newsom said at one of the state’s four remaining juvenile detention centers.

The Democratic governor is asking state lawmakers to put youth prisons under California’s Health and Human Services Agency. Youthful offenders currently are overseen by the same agency that runs adult prisons.

The current system isn’t working, he said, with about three out of four young offenders arrested again within three years of their release. More than half are convicted of new crimes and more than a third are soon back in state custody, according to 2017 figures.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Score one for Newsom and subtract two.

Jesus Cecena should be locked up where the sun don’t shine for the rest of his worthless life. Why the parole board keeps recommending him for parole is beyond belief – even if he is now a Jesus freak.

Closing down the youth prisons and placing young criminals under the Health and Human Services Agency? Newsom has gotta be kidding! If they do that, those bleak recidivism stats will only get worse ….. but not much more worse because they can’t get much worse than they already are.