Barry Krisberg quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, September 30, 2012
UC Berkeley criminal justice expert Barry Krisberg said county probation departments are “probably doing as good or better” of a job supervising offenders than did the state. “The first myth is that we had an effective parole system before—we didn’t,” said Krisberg. “Remember Jaycee Duggard, the woman held hostage for 20 years” by a state parolee?