Sacramento County 'three-striker' freed under Prop. 36 learning to live with freedom

Sacramento Bee

Eugene Dey knew what he had to do. He had just gotten out of the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad as one of the first Sacramento County "three-strikers" released from his life sentence under last year's voter-approved Proposition 36. Dey said he knew what the data said, what the studies showed: Two years of in-prison drug treatment, followed by a year of sober living in a program on the outside, and he would have an excellent chance to make it all the way back.

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