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Editorial NY Times: California Is Failing the Prison Test

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Editorial California Is Failing the Prison Test Published: August 26, 2009- NY Times The California Legislature has failed several times to change backward sentencing and parole policies that keep the state?s prisons dangerously overcrowded with too many minor offenders sent to jail for too long. These failures, which have driven up corrections costs by about 50 percent in less than a decade, came home to roost earlier this month, when a federal court ordered the state to cut the prison population significantly. Days later, an ominous riot broke out in the men?s prison in Chino. The time for ducking this issue has clearly passed, but a reform plan approved by the State Senate after being championed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is in danger of being gutted in the Assembly...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 27, 2009 (boomark / email).