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Dan Walters: California reverses, now shutting prisons

It was 1981 and then-Gov. Jerry Brown had a problem. California’s 12 prisons were bulging at the seams with more than 28,000 inmates, thanks largely to tougher sentencing laws he signed, and he was told to expect another 20,000 more inmates within a few years. The state hadn’t built a new prison in two decades, stretching back to when Brown’s father, Pat Brown, was governor. The Department of Corrections, as the prison system was then called, wanted Brown to launch a major prison...
Antelope Valley United States California Correctional Center Lassen County Deuel Vocational Institution Los Angeles County

Walters: California reverses, now shutting prisons, including SJ's Deuel

The young governor, nearing the end of his second and final term, was reluctant to ask voters for billions of dollars in bond money to build new prisons. His state architect, Sim Van der Ryn, had even refused to endorse plans for new prisons, reflecting opposition by those on Brown’s left flank. Finally, after months of negotiations and debate within his administration, Brown took a minimalist approach, asking the Legislature to place a $495 million prison bond issue on the 1982 ballot, eno...
Antelope Valley United States California Correctional Center Lassen County Los Angeles County Deuel Vocational Institution

California reverses, now shutting prisons

It was 1981 and then-Gov. Jerry Brown had a problem. California’s 12 prisons were bulging at the seams with more than 28,000 inmates, thanks largely to tougher sentencing laws he signed, and he was told to expect another 20,000 more inmates within a few years. The state hadn’t built a new prison in two decades, stretching back to when Brown’s father, Pat Brown, was governor. The Department of Corrections, as the prison system was then called, wanted Brown to launch a major prison...
Antelope Valley United States California Correctional Center Lassen County Deuel Vocational Institution Los Angeles County

California reverses, now shutting prisons

In summary California tripled the number of its prisons during the 1980s and 1990s, but now, as inmate populations drop, it’s beginning to shut down some older facilities. It was 1981 and then-Gov. Jerry Brown had a problem. California’s 12 prisons were bulging at the seams with more than 28,000 inmates, thanks largely to tougher sentencing laws he signed, and he was told to expect another 20,000 more inmates within a few years. The state hadn’t built a new prison in two decades, stretchi...
Antelope Valley United States California Correctional Center Lassen County Deuel Vocational Institution Los Angeles County

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