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CA: Editorial: Time to get real on prison crowding

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Editorial: Time to get real on prison crowding Friday, Sep. 25, 2009 | Page 16A Sacramento Bee Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his team continue to suffer from multiple-policy disorder on prison overcrowding. On one side, the governor declares a state of emergency and says it is absolutely possible to reduce prison population without harming public safety. On the other side, his administration presents a plan to a three-judge federal court panel that says population reductions "cannot be accomplished without unacceptably compromising public safety." This latest proposal, turned into the court last Friday, is make-believe and won't fool anyone. The aim is supposed to be to get California's 33 prisons ? designed for 80,000 prisoners ? down to 137...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 26, 2009 (boomark / email).