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-YES OF COURSE THEY ARE --THEY ARE "ALLWAYS THE ONES TO GO,,,,
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From: Taxpayers for Improving Public Safety (TiPS) <matt@thecapitalalliance.com> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 7:04:21 AM Subject: TiPS Periodic Update 2-15-08 You are receiving this update as a registered user of the Taxpayers for Improving Public Safety (TiPS) website. If you are receiving...
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Redemption and rehabilitation San Francisco Chronicle: Editorial January 18, 2008 Three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the death penalty for minors as cruel and unusual punishment, citing medical and social-science evidence that teens lack the maturity to be held accountable to the same...
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“Accelerated Release: A Literature Review” by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency is our site of the day The National Council on Crime and Delinquency has released a report earlier this month, “Accelerated Release: A Literature Review” that couldn't be more timely, given the proposal by...
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States Hesitate to Lead Change on Executions NEW YORK TIMES By ADAM LIPTAK When a state panel recommended last April that Tennessee abandon the three chemicals used in executions across the nation in favor of the single drug usually used in animal euthanasia, the state¹s corrections commissioner said...
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California's broken parole system The Sacramento Bee reports that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is looking to save money by cutting the corrections budget, perhaps by releasing as many as a third of the inmates in California prisons because they're non-violent and no danger to anyone...
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Editorial: Early release of prisoners has to be considered Prison costs are a big part of fiscal crisis; controlling them is part of the solution Published 12:00 am PST Thursday, December 27, 2007 Story appeared in EDITORIALS section, Page B6 Print | E-Mail | Comments (6)| Digg it | del.icio.us With...
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As the Prison Budget Goes, So Goes the Budget Deficit By: Brian Leubitz Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 10:13:43 AM PST And both are skyrocketing. That we are unable to control our prison spending will lead to just one more in a laundry list of budget disasters in the coming years, but nothing in our budget has...
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2008 looms as year of reckoning on California's prison crowding By: DON THOMPSON - Associated Press SACRAMENTO -- The crisis-fueled momentum that produced a nearly $8 billion prison-spending plan earlier this year has lost some of its steam, leaving the state vulnerable to federal judges ordering...
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Big prisoner release plan Schwarzenegger proposing to free 22,000 low-risk offenders early By Andy Furillo - afurillo@sacbee.com Published 12:00 am PST Friday, December 21, 2007 Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A24 Print | E-Mail | Comments (52) | Digg it | del.icio.us In what may be the largest...