Opinion ID: 1115994
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Disadvantageous

Text: The first issue is whether the 1982 amendments are disadvantageous to petitioner. If we were unencumbered we would be tempted to find that any disadvantage stems from petitioner's own action and that the 1982 amendments are not disadvantageous on their face. Weaver, however, held that a prisoner's control over the increased sanctions of the new plan is irrelevant to whether that plan is deemed disadvantageous. ( Weaver, supra, 450 U.S. at p. 33 [67 L.Ed.2d at p. 25].) In Stanworth, we analyzed the new system not by examining whether the prisoner had actually been disadvantaged but by determining whether the system itself had been altered to the prisoner's detriment. ( Stanworth, supra, 33 Cal.3d at p. 186.) Turning to the 1982 amendments, as we have stated, (1) the acts that may result in a forfeiture of good behavior credits have been expanded, (2) the amount of credits forfeitable for disciplinary violations has been increased, (3) an act punishable by loss of good behavior credits may now sometimes result in a loss of participation credits as well, and (4) the limit on the credits forfeitable over an eight-month period has been deleted. All of these changes, of course, are disadvantageous to petitioner. Accordingly, we conclude that the 1982 amendments meet the first part of the Weaver test for finding a law ex post facto.