The United States imprisons more people than any other country. But In California, the money is finally running short, and a new policy aims to reduce the number of people in state prison. It’s called ‘re-alignment’ and the state says its working. On this edition, Making Contact producer George Lavender investigates: is re-alignment the answer to the prison crisis? Could the incarceration nation finally be slowing down?
Thanks to the Omnia Foundation for partially funding this program.
Featuring:
*Alisha Coleman*, San Francisco County Jail inmate; *Ruthie Wilson Gilmore*;
City University of New York Graduate Center Professor of Earth and
Environmental Sciences; *Matthew Cate*, California Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary; *Jennifer Prince*, San Mateo
County Women’s Jail inmate; *Wendy Still*, San Francisco Chief Probation
Officer; *Don Horsley*, San Mateo county supervisor; *Greg Munks*, San
Mateo County Sheriff; *Daniel Macallair*; Center on Juvenile and Criminal
Justice executive director; *Emily Harris,* Californians United for a
Responsible Budget statewide coordinator
For More Information:
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Fired Up!
http://firedupsf.wordpress.com/
California Coalition for Women Prisoners
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Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
Californians United for a Responsible Budget
http://curbprisonspending.org/
All of Us or None
Critical Resistance
http://criticalresistance.org/
Justice Now
http://jnow.org/
A New Way of Life
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and opposition in Globalizing
California by Ruthie Wilson Gilmore
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520242012
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
Ras K Dee
*Articles*
Prison Break: Realignment Inmates Enter Rehabilitation in S.F.
http://www.sfweekly.com/2012-02-01/news/realignment-prisons-probation-department-recidivism-lauren-smiley/