Senate President Pro Tem Perata’s Prison Reform Floor Speech

Senate President Pro Tem Perata’s prison reform floor speech – (For more, visit www.sen.ca.gov The Senate passed legislation today to increase prison beds, expand treatment programs for inmates and parolees and reform corrections management on a bipartisan 27-10 vote. AB 900 uses lease revenue bonds to generate .4 billion funding 53000 prison beds and expansions of rehabilitation programs. In addition, the measure sets a long list of conditions for the Department of Corrections to meet to eliminate gross mismanagement and improve rehabilitation, counseling, drug treatment and mental health programs. The provisions are aimed at reducing the state’s high recidivism rate.

EDITORIAL: Drug treatment program's growth good development

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Vanderburgh County's courts, always a leader in providing drug treatment programs that ease the burden on prisons and jails and help many addicts return to productive lives, is about to step up the pace. Courier & Press staff writer Mark Wilson reports …
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Concerns On Ending Methadone Treatment

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… methadone services are better suited to community rehabilitation centers than jails. However, Taneja said methadone makes inmates more responsive to treatment, and a sudden stop to the program will increase the amount of illegal drugs at the prison.
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