KQED, Forum with Michael Krasny, March 26, 2009 Host Scott Shafer
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“We sent too many people to prison to begin with. We don’t do much with them while they’re there. Half of all prisoners coming out of the system haven’t done any programming because there’s no incentive. Often we just can’t provide it for them given the current state of our prisons, which were designed very badly; they’re chronically overcrowded. They have about twice as many people in them as they should, so when they’re coming out on parole there’s been very little effort to get them ready for that.”