Activists Mobilize Against CA's Proposed $500 Million Jail Expansion

by Andrew Szeto‚ May. 14‚ 2014  in Beyond the Chron After the revised proposed state budget was released yesterday, activists from around the state are calling on Gov. Jerry Brown to remove the $500 million outlined for jail expansion. With $15 billion in cuts to social safety net programs, prison reform groups like Californians United … Read more