Senators Push for Rehab Programs for State's Most Violent Prisoners

Senators push for rehab programs for state's most violent prisoners

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Texas has received national recognition for its innovative prison treatment and rehabilitation programs, but it provides almost none of that for its toughest, most violent convicts who have spent years in solitary confinement. Prison officials …
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Slow start for money-saving prison effort

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The savings from the plan are to be reinvested in substance abuse treatment programs as well as probation and parole efforts in order to handle the increased number of people on supervised release. Also, the law more clearly differentiates between drug …
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LA County ground zero for prison realignment

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“With less supervision, I feel like I'm not a little kid anymore and they're treating me like a man and so I'm acting like a man.” Like an estimated one-third of prison inmates, Bob was a drug addict. He says he's clean now, and has landed a job …
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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.