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2010 March 18

Daily Archives: March 18, 2010

Educate or incarcerate: why slash schools to keep nonviolent lifers in prison?

California's extremely overcrowded prison system is draining state funds that would normally be used for education. Yet legislators continue to portray non-violent three-strike inmates as dangerous criminals who deserve to serve a life sentence for crimes that would have ordinarily carried six months to one year in the county jail.