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Prison/Jails
California's crackdown on crime means squalid conditions in jails and a huge investment in prisons. Is it time for another look? The human and the financial cost of punishment have officials looking again at alternatives.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readVincent Schiraldi: Executive Director, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice; Member of the California Commission on Inmate Population Management; Co-author of a report on the effectiveness of the Three Strikes law. Executive Director, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice; Member of the California Commission on Inmate Population Management; Co-author of a report on the effectiveness of the Three Strikes law. Geoff Thompson: Lobbyist for California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA), and the Doris Tate Crime Victims Bureau Sandy Harrison: Press Secretary for Bill LockyerJ.P. Tremblay: Assistant Secretary, Youth and Adult Correctional Agency Bilal Mafundi Ali: Organizer Against Police Abuse, coordinator with Community in Support of the Gang Truce, served three years in prison for assault with a deadly weapon) Mike Reynolds: Author of Three Strikes and You're Out Richard Rainey : Senator, (R-7th, Contra Costa County and parts of Alameda) author of SB 295, included in Lockyer's prison reform package, calling for non serious offenders to be placed in intermediate punishment programs operated by counties. Rick Tuttle: Controller, City of Los AngelesEdward Bunker: Author of "No Beast So Fierce," "Dog Eat Dog," spent over twenty years in prison
topic: HUBBELL HIRING
