Senate President Pro Tem Perata’s Prison Reform Floor Speech

Published December 15, 2012

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 Finds Drug Rehab Could Reduce WV Prison Overcrowding

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

A new study suggests that West Virginia can reduce prison overcrowding by providing substance abuse treatment to offenders that are on probation or parole. But as the "war on drugs" rages on, not everyone thinks that program would work the way it's …
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