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| Gov. Brown’s plans to reduce prison overcrowding ignore early release |
| By sfbayview.com - Mutawally Joka Kambon/Cooperwood |
| Published: 12/30/2013 |
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The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), Gov. Jerry Brown and CDCR Secretary Jeffrey Beard have once again failed in their attempt to make California state prisons the main housing program as its solution to the prison overcrowding situation. The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the governor’s appeal and left in place an earlier ruling by a panel of three federal judges which requires Gov. Brown to reduce the state prison population to 137.5 percent, also to improve the prison medical and mental health treatment system. Gov. Brown’s reaction to the rejection was to announce that he would reduce the state prison overcrowding by 1) leasing county jail space in local areas, 2) obtain contracts with private prison operators and 3) send prisoners in California prisons to out-of-state facilities. These three approaches, he said, will allow the CDCR to avoid early release for the nearly 10,000 inmates. It’s imperative that we as a state prison class come together, rebuff and counter all the inadequacies of Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to reduce overcrowding in the state prisons. Leasing county jail space, private prison contracts and sending the prisoners to out-of-state facilities is not a solution to overcrowded prisons nor will it improve California prison medical and mental health treatment. The governor’s plan could only serve as a continuance of the conditions which violate the inmates’ constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment and prolonged isolation inside of the state prisons. Over the last decade CDCR has spent billions of taxpayers’ dollars on new medical and mental health facilities! Yet the health care system remains in disarray, confusion and in need of an overhaul of its entire structure. Read More. |
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