Senate President Pro Tem Perata's prison reform floor speech

(For more, visit http://www.sen.ca.gov/perata) The Senate passed legislation today to increase prison beds, expand treatment programs for inmates and parolees and reform corrections management on a bipartisan 27-10 vote.

AB 900 uses lease revenue bonds to generate $7.4 billion funding 53,000 prison beds and expansions of rehabilitation programs. In addition, the measure sets a long list of conditions for the Department of Corrections to meet to eliminate gross mismanagement and improve rehabilitation, counseling, drug treatment and mental health programs. The provisions are aimed at reducing the state's high recidivism rate.

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