Abstract

victed criminal was not to be released until staff within the prison system concluded that he or she had responded to therapeutic treatment and was no longer a danger to society.2 California law provided for indeterminate sentencing from 1917 to 1977 that was later superseded by a Determinate Sentencing Law (DSL) based on a retributive rather than a rehabilitative model of criminal justice. There were several reasons for this change.3

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