California Shut Down Prisons
Newsom announced plans for closing a second prison during.
California shut down prisons. California to shut down private prisons and immigrant detention centers california gov. California has reduced its inmate population by 30 000 over the last decade which should reduce its dependence on prisons assemblyman phil ting d san francisco chairman of the assembly budget. After a building spree in the 1980s and 1990s when 21 new prisons were opened the state shut down a facility for the first and only time in 2003 a women s prison in stockton. Shrink prisons to help cut budget gov.
Gavin newsom wants to accelerate his plans to reduce incarceration in california by closing two state prisons in the next few years. Gavin newsom is proposing to significantly shrink the footprint of california s juvenile and adult prison system. Gavin newsom has it his way a state prison will be closed sometime before he kicks the bucket. Gavin newsom signed a bill friday that will end the use of private prisons and privately run immigration detention facilities.
With the state planning to shut down its youth prisons counties across california are working to figure out what do including los angeles county with the largest juvenile justice system in the. I would like to see in my lifetime and hopefully my tenure that we shut down.