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Give formerly incarcerated people treatment, not prison time

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"Grass-roots, community-run re-entry homes for people getting out of jail and prison, such as A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project in Los Angeles and Time for Change Foundation's housing program in San Bernardino, have clearly shown the way toward a more effective, efficient, and socially constructive path out of this mess." Give offenders treatment, not prison time March 13, 2011 By DYLAN RODRÍGUEZ I am writing in response to The Press-Enterprise editorial, "Jail-shift promise," (Our Views, Jan. 29). I applaud the publication of this and other editorials casting a critical light on Gov. Jerry Brown's corrections agenda. While I agree with the editorial's reservations about the feasibility and long-term effectiveness of Gov. Brown's plan to "shift responsibility for low-risk felons from state prisons to county jails," and for "counties (to) take over supervision of parolees and parole violators," I also think the position represented in "Jail-shift promise" deserves a critical response of its own...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 15, 2011 (boomark / email).