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California prison reform package implodes amidst partisan bickering

Regular readers know that the Texas Legislature in the last two sessions successfully forged remarkable bipartisan agreements supporing key first steps toward reforming the criminal justice system in ways that reduce the number of new inmates entering Texas prisons, though we still have a long way to go.In California, by contrast, partisan bickering this month killed a legislative package aimed at cutting the state's prison population and reducing the corrections budget, thanks to tuff on crime demagoguing, largely along partisan lines.To provide a little background, it's worth mentioning that California's prison system currently suffers an even more significant crisis than Texas - by far - because unlike here, the US Department of Justice has not been shy about stepping in to address shortcomings in both juvenile and adult systems...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 23, 2008 (boomark / email).