Senate President Pro Tem Perata’s Prison Reform Floor Speech

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.

Study: Drug treatment could help solve W.Va. jail overcrowding

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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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EDITORIAL: Drug treatment program's growth good development

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Vanderburgh County's courts, always a leader in providing drug treatment programs that ease the burden on prisons and jails and help many addicts return to productive lives, is about to step up the pace. Courier & Press staff writer Mark Wilson reports …
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Inmate crowding study homes in on drug abuse

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(AP) — West Virginia can likely reduce prison crowding by assessing more quickly the risks posed by offenders and providing substance abuse treatment to those on probation, parole and other community-level supervision, researchers told state officials …
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