March 24, 2009
Prison guard union calls for reform at Hastings conference
Currently, a special three-judge panel has held that the overcrowding problems contribute to the poor health care delivery and have told the state it can't build its way out of the problem with new prisons but should reduce the numbers by more than 50,000 inmates. That decision is currently on appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Speaking to a University of California Hastings College of Law prison reform conference, Michael Jimenez, the president of California's powerful prison guards' union, he backs a state sentencing commission to reform prison terms. "We can't overcome the gridlock [in the Legislature]. We need a sentencing commission," he said…
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