Stanislaus County District Attorney’s office has confirmed that 59-year-old Modesto resident, Steven Louis Richards, was denied parole following a recent hearing at the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo. According to the official social media post of the District Attorney, Deputy District Attorney James H. Langston argued against Richards’ release, citing a persistent threat to public safety.
In serving a lengthy 85 years-to-life sentence under California’s Three Strikes Law for his prior serious and violent felony convictions, Richards was convicted in 2004 for multiple burglary offenses and forgery. Despite being imprisoned, he has committed multiple violent acts, including as many as 11 instances of fighting, battery, and assaulting a prison guard, spanning from 2008 to 2021, along with other offenses attributed to his involvement with a prison gang…