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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...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

They were talking about doing this the whole time I was in there..... I can't believe the are going to do it.... but they are going to stall as long as they can....... JP