KALW News, November 2, 2010 by Rina Palta and Bernice Yeung
http://informant.kalwnews.org/2010/11/whos-going-back-to-prison-again-and-again/
UC Berkeley’s Krisberg notes that research has shown that education, vocational training, expanded drug treatment, increased family visiting programs in prison and transitional housing on the outside are “overwhelmingly” associated with reduced recidivism. But California has been doing away with these programs, Krisberg observes. “[The state is] cutting exactly the programs that would make more people succeed once they’re released, so the situation is getting worse, not better.”