Senate President Pro Tem Perata’s prison reform floor speech – (For more, visit www.sen.ca.gov The Senate passed legislation today to increase prison beds, expand treatment programs for inmates and parolees and reform corrections management on a bipartisan 27-10 vote. AB 900 uses lease revenue bonds to generate .4 billion funding 53000 prison beds and expansions of rehabilitation programs. In addition, the measure sets a long list of conditions for the Department of Corrections to meet to eliminate gross mismanagement and improve rehabilitation, counseling, drug treatment and mental health programs. The provisions are aimed at reducing the state’s high recidivism rate.

Editorial: Addiction treatment a logical piece of solving prison issue

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Reynolds' description of addiction treatment services now available for offenders and ex-offenders spelled out the treatment holes. He said the state's prison-based residential treatment program generally is effective, but the same was not true for …
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Study: Drug treatment could help solve W.Va. jail overcrowding – Beckley …

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Study: Drug treatment could help solve W.Va. jail overcrowding – Beckley, Bluefield & Lewisburg News, Weather, Sports. Member …. They recommend changing that, while also improving services in prison and the state's day reporting centers. The study …
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Northridge shootings spur call for realignment legislation

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But prosecutors told the judge that Pasasouk was eligible for a drug diversion program under Proposition 36. The district attorney's office has since said this was an error. The judge ordered him to drug treatment rather than prison. Pasasouk later …
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