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Workshop from CURB: CAN CALIFORNIA BUILD ITS WAY OUT OF THE PRISON CRISIS?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

CAN CALIFORNIA BUILD ITS WAY OUT OF THE PRISON CRISIS? A workshop available from Californians United for a Responsible Budget, CURB We want to bring this workshop to you, your school, community group, union or organization across the state. To schedule a workshop or for more information, contact us at curb@riseup.net or call Fresno: 559-266-5901 Bay: 510-444-0484 x 4 L.A.: 310-709-8602 or laprisontimes@earthlink.net California's prisons are in crisis. They are overcrowded despite that fact that we have opened one new prison per year for the past 23 years. The federal courts have taken over the prison medical system that was killing one prisoner a week and is considering taking over the entire system. The ever-growing prison budget is squeezing funds from education, human services, higher education and other state programs and in May 2007, the legislature and the Governor enacted AB900, which, at a cost of $15 billion for construction and debt service alone, would add 53,000 more prison and jail beds to this disastrous system...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 19, 2008 (boomark / email).