Last week CURB’s Executive Director, Amber-Rose Howard testified before the Accountability and Oversight Budget Subcommittee, speaking to the need for prison closure, decarceration, and budget oversight. Check out a clip from her speech HERE!

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCr) is framing prison downsizing and a call for “single-cell housing” as competing priorities, as if California must choose between cutting waste and improving conditions. This is a false choice designed to protect the department’s size and spending even as the prison population declines.

Full article here