Director of Books Not Bars, EllaBakerCenter.org
Director of the Books Not Bars Campaign at the Ella Baker Center.org, one of a coalition of organizations supporting “The People’s Budget Fix” which is aimed at criminal justice reforms that would help solve the state budget problem
Major Problems with State Prisons Last month's state budget failed to provide a blueprint for cutting $1.2 billion from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation . Since then, there's been a prison riot at Chino and a federal court order to reduce the prison population statewide by 40,000 inmates in two years. What does Governor Schwarzenegger propose to do?
No end in sight More than 800,000 federal employees continue to go without pay in what could soon be the longest government shutdown yet.