Alternative program gives federal defendants a second chance

Franklin Zimring quoted in Los Angeles Times, October 22, 2013

Any program that keeps people out of prison is a step in the right direction, said Berkeley law professor Frank Zimring. Still, after decades of skyrocketing incarceration rates—in 1979, 44% of federal felony convictions went to prison, compared with 91% in 2008, Zimring said—programs like CASA are “trying to take a little nibble out of Godzilla.”