'Molesters' and 'rapists' would go free under California bill, state Senate GOP warns
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Republicans warn that California's SB 898, designed to improve protections against sexual abuse in prisons, might reduce sentences for violent offenders.
Jamie Joseph is a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital coverage of the Senate.
But Republicans say that a little-known provision in the bill would enable inmates serving sentences of 15 years or more to seek resentencing or release if there have been changes to sentencing guidelines since their conviction.
"And you know, they're touting that crime is going down, but it's because the Democrats have decriminalized crime in California," state Sen. Brian Dahle told Fox News Digital in an interview. "And so victims of homicide, heinous sexual crimes, rape, murder, molestation of children all can come up in every three years, can go have a potential hearing to get out, whether or not they've been rehabilitated or not."
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