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Publications Oct 1, 1994
The Undue Influence of California’s Prison Guards’ Union: California’s Correctional-Industrial Complex
Documenting the influence of the prison guards union on criminal justice policy in CA.
Publications Oct 1, 1994
Three Strikes: The Unintended Victims
A case history project of people receiving three strikes sentences.
As incarceration rates in California continued to increase during the 1990’s this report debunks the perceived public safety benefit, through an international comparison.
Publications May 1, 1994
Trading Books for Bars: The Lopsided Funding Battle Between Prison and Universities
In a time of fiscal crisis and increasingly limited discretionary spending, such vast increases in prison spending will necessarily threaten both the quality and availability of higher education in California.
Given that so many of the women in prison in California are driven to drug use because of poverty and abuse, the real issue before us is detention or prevention?