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| Increases in Prison and Jail Spending in Governor's Revised Budget Opposed in Santa Cruz |
| By indybay.org- Alex Darocy |
| Published: 05/16/2014 |
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"We are out here today because we know that if we put this money toward restoring social services, and the social safety net for the state of California, that we won't be locking up as many people because these two things are directly related," said Courtney Hanson of the organization Sin Barras. "They take funding away from services that people need to survive," she said. Sin Barras has emphasized there is $5 billion that is available right now in the budget to fund social services, yet funding to begin the expansion of medical parole, to begin an elder parole program, and to create a parole process for non-violent and non-sexual second strikers has been cut to half what it was in the Governor's January budget. Read More. |
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