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CA: Under California prison plan, local authorities would help some prisoners turn their lives around

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

NEWS ANALYSIS Under California prison plan, local authorities would help some criminals turn their lives around Proposed legal settlement would require communities to come up with alternatives to incarceration for offenders convicted of new crimes or found to have violated their parole. By Michael Rothfeld Los Angeles Times Staff Writer May 21, 2008 SACRAMENTO -- - The proposed settlement of a state prison overcrowding lawsuit would require a major shift in the way Californians view prisons, one that would demand that local communities see themselves as stakeholders. The draft agreement in federal court, details of which were released Monday, would divert from state prison tens of thousands of offenders convicted of new crimes or found to have violated their parole...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 21, 2008 (boomark / email).