KALW News, November 30, 2010 by Rina Palta
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“I think the heart of this case is the argument that the extraordinary overcrowding in the California system, which is probably more crowded than any state system in the United States, basically prevents the ability of the state to comply with court orders and the consent decree. No matter how much money is spent, no matter how many people are hired. Short of rebuilding the entire prison system from scratch, which is impossible, crowding is the key here.”

KGO-AM, November 30, 2010 Host Ed Baxter
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What the Supreme Court is going to specifically look at is federal legislation called the Prison Litigation Reform Act, which sets up very stringent requirements for federal court intervention in prison systems and essentially they’re going to answer the question ‘did the federal court, the lower court, apply this statute correctly?’

KALW News, November 2, 2010 by Rina Palta and Bernice Yeung
http://informant.kalwnews.org/2010/11/whos-going-back-to-prison-again-and-again/

UC Berkeley’s Krisberg notes that research has shown that education, vocational training, expanded drug treatment, increased family visiting programs in prison and transitional housing on the outside are “overwhelmingly” associated with reduced recidivism. But California has been doing away with these programs, Krisberg observes. “[The state is] cutting exactly the programs that would make more people succeed once they’re released, so the situation is getting worse, not better.”

La Opinion, October 19, 2010 by Araceli Martínez Ortega
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A study released by the University of California, Berkeley found that as the number of immigrants in California has increased, crime has plummeted…. Krisberg’s study found that the number of inmates in state prisons increased by 3% between 2001 and 2010 while the number of prisoners with deportation orders fell 14%.

-KPBS FM, October 18, 2010 by Ruxandra Guidi
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/oct/18/criminologist-says-crime-california-drops-immigrat/

“Criminologists have historically found that first generation immigrants have much lower rates of crime than similarly situated people in terms of socioeconomics,” says Barry Krisberg, author of the most recent study and criminologist at Cal Berkeley’s School of Law.

-The Bay Citizen, Pulse of the Bay, October 20, 2010 by Jacob Simas
http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/immigrants-dont-bring-crime-berkeley/

Krisberg said he was motivated to conduct the study … because a number of politicians have sought to increase voter support for their election campaigns this year by appealing to the misconception that most immigrants are criminals who pose a threat to public safety…. “The dangerous thing,” Krisberg told La Opinion, “is to produce public policies based on fear, myths and political manipulation.”

The Huffington Post, October 14, 2010 by Alex Gronke
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-gronke/forget-white-boys-the-rea_b_761839.html

Even as sentencing guidelines increasingly limit judicial autonomy, prosecutors enjoy tremendous leeway in the deals they make with defendants in return for guilty pleas. “Plea bargaining, by its nature, is done behind the scenes,” said Barry Krisberg, a criminologist at the University of California’s Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice. “It’s one of the least understood areas of the criminal justice system.”

KCRW FM, Which Way, L.A.?, October 6, 2010 Host Warren Olney
http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/ww/ww101006the_state_budget_and

I was struck with, and, I guess, disappointed with District Attorney Cooley’s focus on the death penalty. This is sort of old-school California politics that cycles again and again. Quite frankly, the hundred and twenty-five thousand prisoners who are being released every year to our communities with obscenely high rates of recidivism is more important to the safety of Californians than whether or not we end up putting one or two people to death every five years.

-The Grio, October 5, 2010 by Monique W. Morris
http://www.thegrio.com/politics/new-study-on-immigrant-criminality-theory.php

“Important conversations about education, employment, and immigration policies are being trivialized by the myth of a ‘crime wave,’ and that’s manifestly wrong,” said Krisberg. “We have to ask, how much of our policymaking is still based on myths?”

-The Crime Report, October 11, 2010
http://thecrimereport.org/2010/10/11/immigrants-and-crime-in-california/

Violent crime in California dropped dramatically during the same period of intense immigration to the state, found a new study by Barry Krisberg of the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice, which is based at the School of Law.

-California WatchBlog, October 13, 2010 by Louis Freedberg
http://californiawatch.org/watchblog/immigrants-underrepresented-californias-crime-rates-5604

During precisely the period that California experienced the biggest immigrant population increase in its history, the state also experienced a precipitous drop in crime rates, according to a report by Barry Krisberg…. “There is no evidence that California is in the midst of a crime emergency as a result of substantial migration of persons born in other nations. To allow this myth to guide public policy discussions about newly arrived noncitizens and future American citizens is harmful.”

-KPCC-FM, October 15, 2010 Host Steve Proffitt
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Researcher Barry Krisberg combined immigration numbers with data from the Department of Justice. He found that over the last 18 years, over three million foreign born immigrants moved into the state of California. Meanwhile, Krisberg said, “violent crimes rates were down dramatically, serious property crime was down dramatically, and those were the statewide figures.”

Richmond Confidential, September 13, 2010 by Mark Oltmanns and Christopher Connelly
http://richmondconfidential.org/2010/09/13/murder-rate-on-the-decline/

Barry Krisberg … said that it is difficult to determine what causes crime to decrease because there are so many possible factors…. He praised the police department’s community policing strategy, and said that Richmond has an effective police chief and a cohesive violence prevention plan. Krisberg also said that new research suggests a correlation between immigration and lower crime rates. He said that because most immigrants have come to work, they tend to keep their heads down and avoid criminal activity. “Increasing immigration into Richmond has probably produced a safer community,” he said.