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The Prisoner's Daughter
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By Matt Kelley January 24, 2011 09:35 AM (PT)
Posted on http://www.change.org/
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California Budget Cuts Offer Chance for Prison Reform
The painful budget cuts on the horizon in California could have an upside for criminal justice reformers.
When new California Governor Jerry Brown announced $12.5 billion in proposed state funding cuts last week, he included a call to close the state's juvenile prison system by 2014. Community based alternatives to incarceration have been shown to reduce crime and long-term recidivism (in Missouri, for example), and Brown's proposal would move California in that direction. This is progressive leadership, and Brown deserves...
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