January 6, 2010
Assembly creates new prison reform oversight committee
Hot on the heels of smack-talking a campaign rival's self-funding, Assembly Majority Leader Alberto Torrico, D-Newark, today announced a new role in which he could either boost or undermine his campaign for state Attorney General: He'll chair the new Assembly Select Committee on Prison and Rehabilitation Reform.
In a state now renowned for dysfunctional government, the prison and rehabilitation system takes the cake: rampant overcrowding, copious contraband, heavy gang influence, runaway recidivism, a health-care system so bad it's been placed in federal receivership, etc…
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