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    California Counties Undermine State Plan to Reduce Prison Crowding

California Counties Undermine State Plan to Reduce Prison Crowding

Mandate to Decrease Population
Legislation was passed nearly three years ago in California by Gov. Jerry Brown to bring a sharp decrease in the state prison overcrowding.

The plan was to keep more low-level inmates in county jails for longer periods and saving space in state prisons for violent and sexual offenders. A surge in the number of people being sentenced to serve prison time since the legislation passed has confounded the efforts of the state.

When the law first passed, the prison inmate population was reduced by approximately 25,000. Almost the level required by federal judges in 2011. Those judges believed …

By |March 13th, 2014|Bail Industry Features|Comments Off on California Counties Undermine State Plan to Reduce Prison Crowding
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Sesame Street Teaches Kids I Is For Incarceration

In the United States it is estimated that more than 2.7 million kids have parents that are serving time in state or federal prisons.

Corrections department officers said this reflects an 80% spike from numbers reported 20 years ago.

This, according to Sesame Street representatives, is why they are creating a production that is geared toward helping these children cope with a new series called "Little Children, Big Challenges".

 

Research shows that about one out of every 28 kids has a parent that is in jail. Some states say their incarceration rate is so high that nearly 10% of resident children have …

By |June 17th, 2013|National|Comments Off on Sesame Street Teaches Kids I Is For Incarceration
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