Ho and the family of Angel Renteria, 19, are asking that the woman convicted of hitting and permanently injuring Angel serve the entirety of her eight-year sentence behind bars.
Ho learned from Angel's mother, Kelly Carr, that CDCR plans to release the offender Devin Calderon to a "Community Transitional Reentry Program" in Sacramento, which the agency still considers "in-custody" while the offender is at a supervised facility outside of prison walls in the community and subject to electronic monitoring.
Angel's family says it is too much freedom for someone sentenced to eight years behind bars, of which a judge ruled she would be required to serve four years, on several charges related to the drunken driving incident that forever changed Angel's life.
Calderon is just shy of two years served at the California Institution for Women - Corona.
Ho said Calderon fled the scene and was only later arrested when she was driving back past the scene and accidentally crashed into a Galt Police cruiser. Ho also adds that Calderon had attended an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting that same day.
Ho said both he and Angel's family should have been given the chance to protest this release before it was granted, as is standard in a typical State Board of Parole Hearing.
"My hope now is that they realize they made a mistake. She needs to serve her time in prison where she was sentenced," said Carr. Carr, a former nurse, is now a full-time nurse at home to her daughter who needs 24/7 care. Angel sleeps in a hospital bed right at her mother's side.
"Wear diapers, be fed through a tube and not able to speak. Just like a baby as an adult. Because of someone's selfish decision," said Carr.
"I had to quit my career and stay home to take care of her. It's changed many people's lives," said Carr.
Ho also sent a letter to CDCR's secretary asking for a reversal of this decision. "I just don't see how when somebody makes a choice to do something so irresponsible, the victim is the only one left to pay the price," said Campbell. Though Angel, in her severe lifelong injuries, can no longer speak -- she still uses sign language to make her voice heard.
The goal of the Female Community Reentry Program is to reduce recidivism.
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