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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
... department response: K9 units, detectives, patrol units, a helicopter and then-Undersheriff John McGinness. No suspects were found, and after an investigation Gargano confessed the attack could have been a drug-induced hallucination. The department dismissed the incident as a medical issue, and Gargano was not disciplined. After Gargano's arrest in September, McGinness said...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 02/06/2010
... Department released 200 inmates, 50 to 100 more than the average daily release count. Sheriff John McGinness said then he expected another 250 to be released by week's end. Kevin Eugene Peterson, an inmate set free Monday under the early-release plan, was arrested less than a day later on suspicion of of attempted rape.
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
... serving half the sentence, a change of about two months for most sentenced to a year. Sheriff John McGinness on Tuesday said only nonviolent inmates jailed on misdemeanors would be eligible for early release. Peterson was convicted for felony assault with a deadly weapon in 2008 - a violent crime. His most recent stint in jail, however, was for a probation violation. "The probation...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 02/03/2010
... serving half the sentence, a change of about two months for most sentenced to a year. Sheriff John McGinness on Tuesday said only nonviolent inmates jailed on misdemeanors would be eligible for early release. Peterson was convicted for felony assault with a deadly weapon in 2008 - a violent crime. His most recent stint in jail, however, was for a probation violation. "The probation...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 02/03/2010
... the like. Sex criminals and serious and violent offenders have specifically been exempted. Sheriff John McGinness said he expected 250 more of his county jail inmates to take advantage this week of the added good-time credits under last year's prison bill signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. McGinness said the number of average daily releases probably will flatten out over...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 02/03/2010
... and balance the state budget. "It's a glimpse of the shape of things to come," Sheriff John McGinness said, adding that this "is not a local cost-saving effort." In the past, nonviolent inmates who showed good behavior while in custody would serve two-thirds of their sentence. The new law, which went into effect Jan. 25, reduced the time they had to serve to half...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
Sacramento County is releasing hundreds of prisoners from its jails as a result of California's new early-release program, an effort to save money in the cash-strapped state. The county has already started releasing inmates from the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center, and the county could release as many as 250 prisoners by the end of today, Sheriff John McGinness confirmed. The number...
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Crime and Consequences Blog (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
From the Sacramento Bee's crime blog : Sacramento County is releasing hundreds of prisoners from its jails as a result of California's new early-release program, an effort to save money in the cash-strapped state. The county has already started releasing inmates from the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center, and the county could release as many as 250 prisoners by the end of today, Sheriff John...
