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last week we were talking about prison reform in online right now we got
centerline hancock to talk more about this is an advocate for prison reform or
anything so much for joining us
on you're welcome
now are you are have been visiting ugh prisons have been doing work with women
in prison
sore throat a great piece of talking about prison reform after the supreme
court ruling of releasing though
about twenty thousand prisoners our prisons are about a hundred seven
hundred-pound seventy-nine percent capacity right now
what your plan to for prison reform
well
think i know what needs to happen an
but governor at the plant that actually
their top part way
out of the men but we're in right now
you know please have a failed
that systems that is draining
odd money promised a positive things we could be doing public safety and for
people in california
an
you know you know the specifics
overcrowded
this the prine cortez
says that our current system has caused needless suffering and death
anticipated is empty and unconstitutional
go we have been directed bite them to release over thirty thousand prisoners
permanent
two years
depends out there
by october of this year
allowed is just a few months away
and
in the middle of the wherein a budget crisis
and the question is
weather at the republicans in the state legislature
whilst the above to both we needed you can help
so that we can correct
ir it convicting pac money
duit helping return people to the community in a way
that will allow them
q reintegrate successfully
and will maintain public safety
as you know we spend forty nine thousand dollars per year
per prisoner in our state prison
almost seven times as much
and we spend per child and our public schools
we'd let people out with two hundred dollars on a bus ticket
an ultra sixty percent of them will be back in within three years
over half of the phones
for parole violations not for committing a new crime
one of the things that i believe needs to happen if we need to have more
education and rehabilitation insider present
most of our prisoners read at about six grade level
up over forty percent of them have no health issues
and i one of the white infants and couldn't tell me what i was living there
that eighty percent of the people on the fence patently estimated
where they are
put something related to drug an alcoholic some kind of substance abuse
either they were high when they commit the crime or if they were using nellore
selling or whatever
so we need drug rehabilitation we need education
unfortunately
the state has been cutting back on those programs of typewritten every year
amah i killed the budget committee and the state senate that deals with prison
the present budget
we have
to keep money
and the because we know that it will result in greater public safety
and able resulted
turning people into taxpayers when they go back to the community instead of
people who just recycled himself
through the prism system
we need to for part of parole and probation
not com after fifteen every incorporates people
dot
not showing up for their meeting with their parole officer or something like
that rate is very complicated issue i mean there's the order of course that
now that there is a goal ten thousand people need to be taking out of prison
are released from prison within the next couple of months
but i mean this is a really complicated issue where we have the
three-strikes-you're-out law which is it's draconian and its ineffective i
mean people who've still essentially prepares of genes in some cases should
not be imprisoned for the rest of their lives
you have hume mentioned their probation issue where for pretty minor offensive
and that offenses of not showing up to us to your proctor people go back to
prison
that
in also deeply you talked about at how it investing in
bridging programs people who are getting out of prison giving them job skills job
training in order for them to be able to eat integrated into the community
there's also been other people who've talked about not
appro lease being stuck in the same city that they committed their crimes and
perot is intially doesn't give them much a chance that changing their behavior
that you know we also we passed as voters in california prop thirty eight
odd which what why is that not been effective why have we not be seen as
change in our prison system with having some these drug offenders for people who
are not familiar with it approx thirty eight put people who were essentially
drug addicts in rehab or was supposed to
why has that been ineffective concert that's been in that we've had that for a
couple of years now
that we have
it internal retroactive
an uh... de tocqueville a lot of people
who
thank that you need to take a part of tough love approach
allotted for the republican program from the outside
that would like to do much more can type program
and would like to do
much more of a tough love approach them prop thirty eight am
but popular with the happen or a correction
you know we've done from others
stepped on the right direction we passed a bill
last year
allowed counties much more flexibility in using their probation money and if
they kept people from returning to prison
they could keep the money
we're going to be holding hearings the great successive that program
large they get measured system in california m have created a lot of other
problems jewish you probably know trafficker block which essentially means
that people released from prison
who aren't huard sex offenders
and they do get released from prison
really can't live anywhere
because when you look at our urban areas senate thousand feet from apart at
school or whatever
bitter and perhaps to be
uh... virtually no pay for them to live
i do
we really do need comprehensive prison reform
uric entirely right about that weenie sentencing reform
i'm not really looking at
these um drug sentences
do we really want a lot of people are preferable drug possession
and possibly giving them affective rehabilitation option
outside a profound
i'll beat me to look at having really good
rehabilitation a massive really
something that i am committed to trying to feed happen
in my job in the state legislature which is sharing the public safety committee
and the president budget committee
on the budget committee
on
and we need to do supportive
parole and probation right now the department has just issues
i'd
notices to a bunch of trek transitional
houses give
people returning
from preston supportive place to live
for six months to a year all they get help in getting a job and some of the
services they need
the department has just told them
it is not going to renew their contract
have make no attempt whatsoever it's capt ten thousand
other people being relieved
you know in the next few months
so
everyday
if it's an effort to untangle they're not
uh... into which we pride ourselves quite frankly
as secondary x-men four pound eyes your at type would like to find out your
opinion
as to be governed the governor's plan
releasing people from prison only to put them into county jail instead
has away to comply with the sipping courts
rattling anyway but you can issue about that recovered barnes without relief
really proven reform plan
and it would yet were also
keep the faith some money
in the process of doing the reform
fungi
proposes to do is take tune tore through of
money that the state have now
a portion of the vehicle license fee in the failed tax
give it to counties
let counties
hadn't how about friday alberto but they called the nam
non serious non-violent not ***
people who shouldn't be in state prison they should be getting services close to
their community
that can be returned to county jail
it can be probation
it can't be pretty much anything the county's to find
and again faith save money by doing prevention
and philip inc
they get
to reinvent that money and mental health program
in education program and whatever they think work
problem
the governor's plan is dependent
on maintaining our existing taxes
which are scheduled to expire july first that two weeks ago
maintaining both taxes
filled with state can dedicate them to the county
it takes to republican votes and you cast of the legislature to do that
because we have a two-thirds boat
to maintain
our current tax code
so far
we can't get to republican vote count to do that
but we are headed toward a class
the governor's plan that would allow people
padilla
dealt with closure to their local community
we have found in general that's good
probation
has much more of the supportive
approach to rehabilitation and other things and paroles first traditionally
have
so
that plan the governor's plan very very important
without it
himself in people
needs to be relieved
by october of this year
two hundred dollars an uplifting zimmer law inherent card thank you so much for
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