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You're listening to Imperfect Paradise, the show about the gap between the dream and reality.

I'm Antonia Serreijido.

When we left off, we were at the midway point of district attorney George Gascon's term

and he was struggling to implement the reforms he promised facing pushback from his

own office and was confronted with the fact that changing the rules

isn't the same thing as changing the system. Take resentencing.

Gascone made big promises that he would consider seeking the early release of tens of thousands of people in prison.

But by the middle of his term, fewer than a hundred people have been released.

Gascon says there just weren't enough attorneys to take everything on.

So his office basically triaged.

They started with people who had been transferred to adult

court when they were 14 or 15 years old.

Jose Santana was transferred to adult court at 15 years old for stealing two cell

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