California Watch, October 27, 2010 by Kendall Taggart
http://californiawatch.org/watchblog/how-do-prisons-treat-their-pregnant-inmates-6168
Barry Krisberg, a fellow at the UC Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice and former president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, said about this new report: “What these people did is look at what’s going on at the state level, and really the unfinished story is at the county level.”
Michael Sumner, research manager at UC Berkeley’s Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, said California generally does family-based treatment programs well. The only issue, he said, is that there aren’t enough. “I think the number of spots they have is 100, 140 tops. If you look at the entire pool of incarcerated mothers, it’s a very small percentage” who are able to participate, he said.