California Forward
The moment someone is fully committed into the corrections system is when they are sentenced and that dictates the rest of their path. If someone is mentally ill or addicted to drugs, that path shouldn’t necessarily lead to a jail cell.
read moreThe theme of the week has been legislation and the realm of inmate health care was no exception.
read moreIt is in this time period that budget cuts to rehabilitative programming, service provider contracts and staffing reductions began were felt in all corners of the department.
read moreIt is important to understand this report is simply one in a long list of wonderfully crafted reviews, audits and reports submitted to the State and CDCR since 2005 or so.
read moreAs we mark the two year anniversary of Assembly Bill 109’s implementation, realignment is still not an issue that lends itself easily to sound bites.
read moreA recent extension granted by the three judge panel provides an extra month to get all parties on board with a solution for the final shift of inmates out of state prisons
read moreRegardless of what the court dictates with respect to SB 105, California must continue to embrace this shift long-term as it is the only true means of attacking recidivism at the source
read moreIn three weeks, it has gone from head-butting to hand-shaking over exactly how to go about reducing California’s state prison population by another 8,500 inmates
read morePart 3 has her discussing the potential benefits of the upcoming Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation to Los Angeles County’s jail system and what she sees as the future of AB 109.
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