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Criminal

Oct. 29, 2013

Santa Clara County to fund housing assistance for Prop. 36 inmates

The pilot program will add to the county's already relatively robust suite of re-entry services available to newly released prisoners whose long-term sentences have been cut short under the state's revised three-strikes law.


By Hamed Aleaziz


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Santa Clara County supervisors last week approved funding for a pilot program that would provide inmates released under Proposition 36, which reformed the state's three-strikes law, with housing rental subsidies of up to $1,000 per month. Though some details have yet to be worked out, the plan would add to the county's already relatively robust suite of re-entry services available to newly released pri...

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