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| Plan lets local authorities help |
| By Los Angeles Times |
| Published: 05/21/2008 |
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CALIFORNIA - The proposed settlement of a state prison overcrowding lawsuit would require a major shift in the way Californians view prisons, one that would demand that local communities see themselves as stakeholders. The draft agreement in federal court, details of which were released Monday, would divert from state prison tens of thousands of offenders convicted of new crimes or found to have violated their parole. They would be watched over in their home communities by local probation or state parole agents. But that would require local government to expand programs to treat those offenders or to create alternatives to incarceration, and allow new facilities in their backyards. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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