From CURB:
Key Findings of the report:
CURB strongly recommends that the Legislature:
1. Withhold any prison infrastructure spending;
2. Further accelerate plans for state-owned prison closure to close ten state owned prisons in the next five years;
3. Include additional criteria for prison closures that CDCR has not considered in selecting which prisons to close first;
4. Divest from the Corrections budget and invest in strategies for durable, long-lasting decarceration; and
5. Ensure that closed prisons remain closed and are not repurposed for any other carceral uses.
Accomplishing our goal of closing ten prisons in five years will be hard. It will require political courage. But history is watching us, and waiting for California to finally address what are the most
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