-The Associated Press, January 18, 2012 by Don Thompson
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jan/18/calif-hopes-for-end-to-court-oversight-of-prisons/
“California’s prisons deteriorated to the point of an almost total federal court takeover,” said Barry Krisberg, a senior fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law who testified as an expert witness in cases involving prison crowding and treatment of juvenile offenders. “Now the spirit has changed … so we may be kind of digging our way out of this.”
-Beyond Chron, January 24, 2012 by Karin Drucker
http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Collateral_Damage_Children_and_Prison_Reform_in_California_9833.html
Barry Krisberg, criminal justice expert and a Director of Research and Policy at UC Berkeley school of law suggests that these programs “will work well in some places [where] you have a critical mass of people that want to innovate: prison less, community more. But there’s just a dozen of them at the best.”
-KALW-FM, Crosscurrents, January 31, 2012 Host Joaquin Palomino
http://www.kalw.org/post/imprisoned-life-three-part-series
“The basic logic of determinate sentencing is, do the crime, do the time,” says Barry Krisberg, the research and policy director of the Earl Warren Institute at UC Berkeley. “There’s no role for rehabilitation under determinate sentencing.”