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CA: Prop 5 vs. the prison-industrail complex

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

From the Los Angeles Times Prop. 5 vs. the prison-industrial complex The officials and special interests who oppose the drug rehabilitation measure are doing so to protect their own power and money. By Ethan Nadelmann November 3, 2008 If Proposition 5 goes down to defeat on Tuesday, the five governors who lined up to condemn it Thursday will have won a Pyrrhic victory. Not one has offered an alternative to Proposition 5 for dealing responsibly with California's prison overcrowding crisis, the exploding prison budget or the outlandish power of a union whose interests lie in incarcerating as many of their fellow citizens as possible. Each of them has given lip service to the need for treatment instead of incarceration in dealing with drug convictions and other nonviolent offenders with drug problems...continue to full post

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