-HealthyCal, September 29, 2011 by Heather Tirado Gilligan
http://www.healthycal.org/archives/5939
“Political rhetoric – especially tough-on-crime rhetoric – is what got California into its corrections problem in the first place,” Krisberg said. “In our zeal to punish offenders, we’ve punished ourselves,” he said, citing the significant chunk of the state budget that goes to prisons.
-Los Angeles Times, September 29, 2011 by Alexa Vaughn
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/29/nation/la-na-prison-guards-20110930
But within public and private systems, some guards think their actions have no consequences because the process for punishing them is so convoluted, said Barry Krisberg. “Screenings are a good start, but what we need is far better training in terms of what the expectations of the jobs are, better supervision to identify potential problems and ways to deal with complaints about their behavior,” Krisberg said.
-National Public Radio, September 29, 2011 by Richard Gonzalez
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/29/140901846/californias-new-prison-policy-has-some-skeptics
The state’s plan is called “realignment.” It shifts certain functions from the state to the counties, says Barry Krisberg…. “With a state with 58 counties and the diversity of California,” he said, “what we’re going to see is 58 varieties of realignment.”