The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has failed and continues to fail to implement regulations that help registrants on parole, according to a lawsuit that has been sent to Sacramento Superior Court. The regulations at issue were recently adopted after a prior lawsuit was filed challenging a CDCR policy that required all registrants on parole to undergo treatment the entire time on parole. CDCR regulations require the agency to allow registrants to participate in their containment meetings as well as to provide registrants with a document (CDCR Form…
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New Lawsuit Challenges CDCR Policy Harming Female Registrants
ACSOL filed a new lawsuit yesterday that challenges a CDCR policy which allows the agency to use a tool that has not been validated to assess the risk of re-offense for women required to register. The name of that tool is the Female Sex Offender Risk Assessment (FSORA). The lawsuit was filed in Sacramento Superior Court and includes a declaration by Dr. Franca Cortoni, an expert in the re-offense rates of female registrants. According to Dr. Cortoni, there is no validated tool for assessing the re-offense rates of women required…
Read MoreCA: CDCR Agrees to Change Treatment Requirements for Registrants on Parole
Source: ACSOL The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has agreed in writing to change treatment requirements for registrants while on parole. As a result of this agreement, the number of registrants who are discharged early from parole is expected to increase significantly. The improvements to which CDCR have agreed include the possibility of ending treatment in as little as one year. The improvements also require parole officers and treatment providers to decide after the first year of treatment and then once a year after the initial decision whether…
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