Thinking About Corrections : California

The California Situation, Continued

Eileen Conway — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:12:00 GMT

Hard on the heels of the Little Hoover Commission's report released last week, California's Legislative Analyst's Office has just released "California's Criminal Justice System: A Primer." Providing an overview of California's criminal justice system, it documents costs of crime and criminal justice, and identifies challenges to policymakers in the areas of prison capacity management and correctional rehabilitation programs.

Stark Assessment: Time Is Running Out

Eileen Conway — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:37:00 GMT

"The bare facts have earned California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation an ignoble distinction for systemic failure." The State of California's Little Hoover Commission takes California's prison problems head-on in a new report, "Solving California's Corrections Crisis: Time Is Running Out." The report notes that, despite many years of study, "policy-makers have been unwilling to take on the problem in a purposeful, constructive way."