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Lawmakers Provide Roadmap for Reform
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a historic and comprehensive corrections overhaul on May 3, 2007. The bipartisan legislation, Assembly Bill 900 (Solorio; D-Anaheim), provides resources to improve public safety by reducing the rates at which inmates re-victimize communities and return to prison.
This legislative road map to reform provides short-term and long-term solutions designed to help alleviate the overcrowding crisis plaguing California’s prison system. The reforms also allow the newly reorganized California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to re-focus efforts on innovative and evidence-based programs both in prison and post release.
AB 900 contains aggressive benchmarks for construction, rehabilitation, and oversight. CDCR is on an accelerated track to complete the state’s ambitious reform proposal. This publication illustrates the significant progress underway toward a new model that focuses on effective rehabilitation, while actively engaging local communities and law enforcement as partners in the criminal justice system.