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March 19, 2008
Workshop from CURB: CAN CALIFORNIA BUILD ITS WAY OUT OF THE PRISON CRISIS?
CAN CALIFORNIA BUILD ITS WAY OUT OF THE PRISON CRISIS?
A workshop available from Californians United for a Responsible Budget, CURB
We want to bring this workshop to you, your school, community group, union or organization across the state.
To schedule a workshop or for more information, contact us at
curb@riseup.net or call
Fresno: 559-266-5901
Bay: 510-444-0484 x 4
L.A.: 310-709-8602 or laprisontimes@earthlink.net
California's prisons are in crisis. They are overcrowded despite that fact that we have opened one new prison per year for the past 23 years. The federal courts have taken over the prison medical system that was killing one prisoner a week and is considering taking over the entire system. The ever-growing prison budget is squeezing funds from education, human services, higher education and other state programs and in May 2007, the legislature and the Governor enacted AB900, which, at a cost of $15 billion for construction and debt service alone, would add 53,000 more prison and jail beds to this disastrous system.
The ever-growing prison budget is squeezing funds from education, human services, higher education and other state programs and in May 2007, the legislature and the Governor enacted AB900, which, at a cost of $15 billion for construction and debt service alone, would add 53,000 more prison and jail beds to this disastrous system.
Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) has put together a lively, informative illustrated workshop that will explain why California can’t build its way out of this crisis, why prisons matter to those with and without people locked up and what your organization can do to reverse a quarter century of "the largest prison building project in the history of the world." We want to bring this workshop to you, your school, community group, union or organization across the state.
Posted by lois at March 19, 2008 09:29 AM