SENATE TO EXAMINE PRISON, JAIL BONDS
COALITION FOR EFFECTIVE PUBLIC SAFETY
PRESS ADVISORY
SENATE TO EXAMINE PRISON, JAIL BONDS
Opposition mounting to Governor’s controversial plan to build nearly 100,000 new cells
WHEN: Tuesday, February 14, 2006, 9:30 am – 12: 30 pm
WHERE: State Capitol, Room 4203
WHAT: Senate Public Safety Committee Informational Hearing on Governor’s Controversial Prison and Jail Construction Bond Proposal
WHO: The Committee will hear testimony from Corrections, the Legislative Analyst, law enforcement and nationally known experts and advocates including Rose Braz of Critical Resistance, Jodie Kent of the ACLU, Judy Greenspan of California Prison Focus, Franklin Zimring from UC Berkeley and Barry Krisberg of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 13, 2006
CONTACTS:
John Lum 916-995-2379 (c)
Craig Gilmore 213-742-1836 (w)
Sacramento, CA – Governor Schwarzenegger’s surprise bid to build nearly 100,000 new jail and prison cells comes to the state Senate tomorrow, where the Senate Public Safety Committee will hear testimony on the controversial plan -- which has yet to find a Senate sponsor.
The Governor is proposing over $7 Billion in public debt assumed over the next 5 years to build prisons and jails, plus another $10.2 Billion from other state and local sources. Opposition to the Governor’s plan continues to grow:
“No one on my side of the aisle sees that [more prisons and jails] as a priority.”
Senate Pro Tem Don Perata (San Francisco Chronicle, January 11, 2006)
“This has serious flaws and should be renamed the ‘Field of Dreams Bond Act of 2006.’ If we build it they will come…The bond is designed with the wrong future in mind. If we do this we are committing ourselves to a future of building more prisons and filling them up, rather than prevention and rehabilitation.”
Assemblywoman Rebecca Cohn (Assembly Public Safety Committee, January 25, 2006)
"We know voters have certain preferences. They don't like money for jails..."
Senate Pro Tem Don Perata, (Los Angeles Times, January 28, 2006)
"Where is the plan to reduce recidivism?...Instead, it's 'Let's spend money on more cells.' "
Assemblyman Mark Leno (San Francisco Chronicle, January 27, 2006)
"We are not going to build ourselves out of this problem…New prisons are not going to cut it."
Senator Gloria Romero (San Francisco Chronicle, January 6, 2006)
"We don't believe we should tie the hands of future generations on how they can spend their money.”
Speaker of the Assembly Fabian Nunez (Capitol Weekly, January 12th, 2006)
PRESS ADVISORY
SENATE TO EXAMINE PRISON, JAIL BONDS
Opposition mounting to Governor’s controversial plan to build nearly 100,000 new cells
WHEN: Tuesday, February 14, 2006, 9:30 am – 12: 30 pm
WHERE: State Capitol, Room 4203
WHAT: Senate Public Safety Committee Informational Hearing on Governor’s Controversial Prison and Jail Construction Bond Proposal
WHO: The Committee will hear testimony from Corrections, the Legislative Analyst, law enforcement and nationally known experts and advocates including Rose Braz of Critical Resistance, Jodie Kent of the ACLU, Judy Greenspan of California Prison Focus, Franklin Zimring from UC Berkeley and Barry Krisberg of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 13, 2006
CONTACTS:
John Lum 916-995-2379 (c)
Craig Gilmore 213-742-1836 (w)
Sacramento, CA – Governor Schwarzenegger’s surprise bid to build nearly 100,000 new jail and prison cells comes to the state Senate tomorrow, where the Senate Public Safety Committee will hear testimony on the controversial plan -- which has yet to find a Senate sponsor.
The Governor is proposing over $7 Billion in public debt assumed over the next 5 years to build prisons and jails, plus another $10.2 Billion from other state and local sources. Opposition to the Governor’s plan continues to grow:
“No one on my side of the aisle sees that [more prisons and jails] as a priority.”
Senate Pro Tem Don Perata (San Francisco Chronicle, January 11, 2006)
“This has serious flaws and should be renamed the ‘Field of Dreams Bond Act of 2006.’ If we build it they will come…The bond is designed with the wrong future in mind. If we do this we are committing ourselves to a future of building more prisons and filling them up, rather than prevention and rehabilitation.”
Assemblywoman Rebecca Cohn (Assembly Public Safety Committee, January 25, 2006)
"We know voters have certain preferences. They don't like money for jails..."
Senate Pro Tem Don Perata, (Los Angeles Times, January 28, 2006)
"Where is the plan to reduce recidivism?...Instead, it's 'Let's spend money on more cells.' "
Assemblyman Mark Leno (San Francisco Chronicle, January 27, 2006)
"We are not going to build ourselves out of this problem…New prisons are not going to cut it."
Senator Gloria Romero (San Francisco Chronicle, January 6, 2006)
"We don't believe we should tie the hands of future generations on how they can spend their money.”
Speaker of the Assembly Fabian Nunez (Capitol Weekly, January 12th, 2006)
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