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California, in Financial Crisis, Opens Prison Doors and Comments on the Reality of the Situation

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Comments on the article below which appeared in the 3-23-10 NY Times entitled "California in Financial Crisis, Opens Prison Doors." The comments below are from an knowledgeable organizer in CA who debunks much of what is in the Times article: "a couple of comments from California: "The goal is to reduce the number of inmates in the state's 33 prisons next year by 6,500" - the non-partisan Legislative Analyst's Office reports that CDCR estimates of the reductions are overstated. The LAO guesses a reduction of about half that amount. "But fiscal reality, coupled with a court-ordered reduction in the prison population, is pouring cold water on old solutions like building more prisons." The Court has not ordered a reduction in the prison population...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 02, 2010 (boomark / email).