Handy sum-up, from Ed board of NY Times: "The state claims that - TopicsExpress



          

Handy sum-up, from Ed board of NY Times: "The state claims that releasing any more inmates would be a threat to public safety, as if the problem were too little prison space. In fact, California’s problem is not excessive crime, but excessive punishment. This was obvious years before the Supreme Court weighed in. Since the mid-1970s, California’s prison population has grown by 750 percent, driven by sentencing laws based largely on fear, ignorance and vengeance." nytimes/2013/08/11/opinion/sunday/californias-continuing-prison-crisis.html
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 17:38:02 +0000

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