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California Youth Defeat ?Lock ?em Up? Politics -Prop 6

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

New America Media, Commentary, Raj Jayadev // Posted: Nov 08, 2008 Review it on NewsTrust Eclipsed by the enormity of a nation voting in a black President, and a statewide cultural war over gay marriage, is that fact that California registered one the most dramatic and significant shifts in attitude over incarceration policies in state history this past election. The quintessential ?tough on crime? initiative, Proposition 6, was overwhelmingly rejected by voters across the state, a count of 70 percent to 30 percent, and did not win a majority in a single county. With little news coverage, and no commercials on either side leading up to the election, the trouncing of Prop. 6 was a near unadulterated reflection of California's new mind-set on criminal justice policies...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 10, 2008 (boomark / email).