Nate is an East Bay community papers editor for the Bay Area News Group and East Bay Times. He edits the Hills weekly Alameda Journal, Berkeley Voice, El Cerrito Journal, Montclarion and Piedmonter newspapers; Central Costa County's weekly Concord Transcript and Walnut Creek Journal papers; and East Contra Costa's weekly East County News.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democrats in Sacramento are working steadily these days to close several California prisons, perhaps as many as six.The stated benefits include saving money and doing something to address mass incarceration of African Americans and other minorities, which is partly the result of the much-maligned federal and state “war on drugs.” Despite support from the elected chief prosecutors in several of the most populous California counties, though, there are dangers.
Undoubtedly, some of those involved have reformed, at least to some degree. Others have grown older and feebler. Some remain threatening, though, regardless of parole boards’ findings. No one knows how many like Timothy Chavira now reside in California prisons, where they can harm no one but themselves or fellow inmates until and unless they are released. In fact, some are already wreaking havoc on other prisoners, as inmate-on-inmate murders and beatings have reportedly increased this year.
Gascon and Price were elected on promises to go easier on serious criminals, including omitting some earlier felony “strikes” against them as sentencing factors and enforcing no-cash-bail policies wherever possible, despite the fact that California voters by a large margin in 2020 passed a referendum canceling a law that sought to eliminate cash bail statewide.
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