Democracy Now, September 9, 2009 Host Amy Goodman
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/9/overcrowded_and_going_broke_a_look
I think we need a whole new paradigm change about public safety in the state. We treat public safety as if it equaled prisons. It’s sort of like treating hamburgers as if they were the only food that one could consume. We need police. We need probation officers. We need first responders. We need drug treatment and mental health caseworkers.