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State Set to Release Thousands of Female Inmates
Some 4000 women inmates may be released from California prisons to live at home with their children. Part of the effort to relieve overcrowded institutions, the Department of Corrections says...
By Warren Olney • • 58m ListenSome 4000 women inmates may be released from California prisons to live at home with their children. It's part of the effort to relieve overcrowded institutions, and the Department of Corrections says it might prevent the children from leading lives of crime. We hear what conditions the women will have to meet. Also, the Northern California company was called the future of green energy by President Obama. Now that Solyndra is bankrupt, his administration says it was the Bush Administration's idea. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, the "Arab Spring" and diplomacy in the Middle East.
Banner image: The Female Offender Treatment and Employment Program is a residential based program partnership between CDCR and Walden House. It's goal is to provide a smooth transition for women leaving prison and getting back into society. Photo courtesy of the California Departmnt of Corrections and Rehabilitation
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California solar-panel company Solyndra was visited by President Obama, who called it a great example of the green-energy economy, but it was really the Bush Administration's idea. That's what Energy Department officials told a House Commerce Committee today, now that Solyndra faces bankruptcy and investigation by the FBI.
Read the story9 minEarly Release for Female Prisoners
More than 4000 women inmates in California prisons could be released early — if they have less than two years left on their sentences, if their crimes were nonviolent, non-serious and non-sexual — and if they have children. That's according to a law signed by former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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