Perpetual "Crisis" and the Dysfunctional Politics of Corrections in California

• Published in: Criminology & public policy Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 411 - 419
• Main Author: Campbell, Michael C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.05.2012; American Society of Criminology
• Subjects: California; Commissions; Correction (penology); Correctional System; Courts; Criminal justice; Economic Conditions; Oversight; Parole & probation; Penal Reform; Pilot projects; Policy Making; Prisoners; Prisons; Prisons Overcrowding; Recidivism; Reforms; Rehabilitation; Schwarzenegger, Arnold Alois; California

In 2007, California's Little Hoover Commission, which is a bipartisan government oversight committee, stated frankly in a report to California lawmakers that, "The State knows what the answers are ... thanks to nearly two decades of work" and suggested that policy makers stop dragging...