Day: June 17, 2017

Last year, Governor Brown said he would develop a sustainable solution to California’s prison crisis.

But in this year’s budget, he made it clear that he wants to move the state in the opposite direction by increasing CDCR spending to an all time high.

Among the alarming moves, the budget:

• increases $500 million for state corrections
• increases $1.5 million for local community corrections
• refurbishes or replaces the 12 Oldest Prisons in California

We need to make Californianas aware of this irresponsible, harmful budget and press our legislature to pass important legislation and implement Prop. 57 as voters intended. Our legislature can still show Gov. Brown that we won’t accept his continued prioritization of imprisonment.

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