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"State police chiefs' association backs prison plan in budget"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new Los Angeles Times article discussing the latest debates over the prison reform provisions in the new California budget plan.  Here is how the piece starts: A day after Republican lawmakers threatened to back out of the state budget deal over a provision to cut the prison population, California police chiefs this morning threw their support behind the plan.  The endorsement by the California Police Chiefs' Assn. may ease nerves of elected officials from both parties about the plan to save $1.2 billion, which came under fire when details were revealed Tuesday.... Pasadena Police Chief Bernard Melekian, president of the association, said today that the plan to reduce the inmate population by 27,000, partly by targeting specific offenders who behave well, are sick or have the least time to serve, takes "huge steps in the right direction...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 22, 2009 (boomark / email).