Gov. Jerry Brown calls on feds to give up oversight of prisons

Jeanne Woodford quoted in Los Angeles Times, January 8, 2013

Former state prisons chief Jeanne Woodford disputed the governor’s assertion and said she worried that without federal intervention, the governor and Legislature would find it easier to cut funding for improvements such as new healthcare facilities. “Without court oversight, resources tend to get taken away,” said Woodward, a senior fellow at UC Berkeley School of Law