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Only by targeting support before child welfare gets involved can we truly strengthen families and protect children, especially children of incarcerated mothers.
The 2014 ballot initiative — which came at a time when California wanted to reduce its prison population and limit its reliance on incarceration — reduced some felonies to misdemeanors and ...
A district court panel had determined the state's prison facilities held nearly twice as many inmates as they were designed for, and it ordered the state "to reduce its prison population to 137.5% ...
1975 – Programs were developed to assist children with learning disabilities who entered the juvenile justice system. 1984 – A new missing and exploited children program was added. 1984 – Strong support was given to programs that strengthened families. 1988 – Studies on prison conditions within the Indian justice system.
In California specifically, citizens are concerned over the billions of dollars spent by the state legislature on prison construction in the past few years, including $500 million via SB 1022 and $1.2 billion through AB 900. A number of anti-prison organizations have developed. Among them is California United for a Responsible Budget (CURB).
It was the result of a court-order in response to shortfalls in medical and mental health care for the state's prison population. On 23 May 2011, the US Supreme Court upheld an order by a three-judge federal court requiring the state of California to reduce its state prison population to no more than 137.5% of its design capacity within two years.
California's county jails function like county jails throughout the United States: they are used to incarcerated people pre-trial, through a trial and sentencing, and for some sentences of commitment. The majority of people incarcerated in California's county jails have not been sentenced (they are pre-trial and have not been convicted of a crime).
In the first half of the 19th century, prison reform in northern free states — Pennsylvania and New York in particular — promoted the idea that rehabilitation and penitence should be the goals ...