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Californians United For A Responsible Budget -Brief Filed in Prison Overcrowding Lawsuit on Measures to Save Millions

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

February 27, 2008 Coalition Proposes Reductions in Prison Population That Will Save the State Millions of Dollars Brief Filed in Prison Overcrowding Lawsuit Advocates Measures to Save Millions Without Affecting Public Safety SAN FRANCISCO- Today Californians United For A Responsible Budget (CURB), a coalition of more than forty community organizations, filed an amicus brief in the prison overcrowding lawsuit being heard by a panel of three federal judges. In its brief CURB, whose constituent organizations represent those individuals and communities most directly impacted by public safety policies, asked the court to alleviate overcrowding by substantially reducing the number of people in State prisons. "CURB opposes the State's response to overcrowding, its $15 billion prison construction program, AB900, because it simply expands a failed system without addressing the root causes of overcrowding, incurring huge costs with no demonstrable improvement in public safety," says Bob Lane of Critical Resistance, one of the CURB Member Organizations...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 27, 2008 (boomark / email).