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CA: State prisons chief proposes $400 million in cuts

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

State prisons chief proposes $400 million in cuts afurillo@sacbee.com Published Friday, Apr. 24, 2009 California corrections officials today unveiled $400 million in cost-cutting proposals that would reduce the state prison population by 8,000 inmates by next summer. Agency Secretary Matt Cate said a proposed change in parole policies would cut the prison population by 4,000. He said it would result in fewer offenders being returned on technical violations while at the same time lowering parole agent caseloads so they can spend more time supervising more serious and violent parolees when they are released. The other half of the population reductions would come through expanded good behavior credits for inmates who complete education or job programs and through changes in the dollar value of property crimes, which would turn some thefts now prosecuted as felonies into misdemeanors...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 25, 2009 (boomark / email).