Barry Krisberg Chastises Critics of Prison Realignment

-San Francisco Chronicle, November 20, 2011 by Marisa Lagos
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/20/MNL91M01HD.DTL&type=printable

“But the larger question is, once you get to the jurisdictions that are dubious about realignment, that have not bought into rehabilitation as the main goal of the justice system, are we just going to see people gaming the system?”

-San Francisco Chronicle, November 26, 2011 by Marisa Lagos
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/25/BAI81M2O5V.DTL#ixzz1f1oEg6us

“While it is true that a small number of people commit the vast majority of crimes, we also know that they get tired and age out of crime and that keeping punishing older criminals has no effect,” said Barry Krisberg, a criminologist at UC Berkeley’s law school. “The problem with that argument is that they are saying people don’t age out, and all research says the opposite.”