Focus (Forum & Focus)
May 5, 2007
Ending Build-and-Fill
Forum Column – by Alex Landon – For the past quarter-century, California has been building more prisons to house ever more prisoners. What we need to do is provide alternatives to prison and reform the parole system.
By Alex Landon
When a pipe has a leak, do we fix it or buy buckets to catch the water?
What we have been doing with the California prison system for the past quarter of a century is buying buckets. We have gone from 12 to 33 prisons, yet are so overcrowded that two U.S. District Court judges, Thelton E. Henderson in the Northern District and Lawrence K. Karlton in the Eastern...
For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
Receive unlimited article access and full access to our archives,
Daily Appellate Report, award winning columns, and our
Verdicts and Settlements.
Or
$795 for an entire year!
Or access this article for $45
(Purchase provides 7-day access to this article. Printing, posting or downloading is not allowed.)
Already a subscriber?
Sign In