March 17, 2010
Prison policy weighed: Size, gangs may cause fits for cell integration
In preparation for a statewide plan to integrate individual prison cells, much was said about Texas and its largely successful attempts to do the same in the early 1990s.
Now that Folsom State Prison has become the fourth California institution to implement a prison cell integration policy, the promise and challenge of the Lone Star example are drawing more scrutiny.
James Hernandez is a professor of criminal justice at California State University, Sacramento, and a skeptic of the integration policy. An expert on various street gangs, he cautions against holding Texas prisons up as the model for California’s overcrowded institutions.
“With California, a lot of the problem is sheer numbers,” he said...
LINK - FolsomTelegraph.com
