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NY Times Editorial: Spineless in California

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"The only real way for California to cut prison costs is to reverse sentencing policies that have filled its prisons to bursting and have driven up costs by about 50 percent over the last decade alone. Among other things, too many minor offenders are sent to jail for too long." Editorial Spineless in California Published: January 7, 2010- NY Times Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California was on the mark when he said this week that the state needed to change policies that spend more money on prisons than on the state?s once-vaunted higher education systems, which are being bled to death in budget cuts. But Mr. Schwarzenegger was way off the mark when he suggested that the answer was to privatize prison services or to pass yet another constitutional amendment, this time to limit prison spending...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 08, 2010 (boomark / email).