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State of Mass Incarceration

By Jonathan Simor

Last week before finals here at Cal and whatever intelligence I had to impart this semester has long been imparted. Fortunately California's disastrous dance with mass incarceration remains central to discussions here on campus. In light of the aforementioned neural overextraction problem, please pardon the recourse to a simple listing.* Barry Krisberg discusses downsizing the prison industrial complex with UC News Center's Cathy Cockrell.* In his interview last Saturday with Scott Simon on Weekend Edition Saturday, UC President Mark Yudof noted that having the world's biggest prison system won't grow the state's economy the way a world class university system may.* David Onek's terrific podcast series Conversations on Criminal Justice has repeatedly focused on mass incarceration especially in last month's interview with Jeanne Woodford, Former Warden, San Quentin State Prison; Former Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; in his March interview with formerly incarcerated author Sunny Schwartz about her book Dreams from the Monster Factory; and February when David interviewed current Secretary of Corrections Matthew Cate.continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on May 05, 2010 (boomark / email).