Thursday, November 20, 2008

Prop. 5 Vs The Prison-Industrial Complex.

If Proposition 5 goes down to defeat on Tuesday Nov 4th (it did), the five governors who lined up to condemn it Thursday will have won a Pyrrhic victory. Not one has offered an alternative to Proposition 5 for dealing responsibly with California's prison overcrowding crisis, the exploding prison budget or the outlandish power of a union whose interests lie in incarcerating as many of their fellow citizens as possible.
Full Article:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-nadelman3-2008nov03,0,3924232.story

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