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...overcrowding is the first issue," says Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency in Oakland, Calif. "You're talking about hundreds of men moved into triple bunks in what used to be gyms and cafeterias. They're not even cells. They're just empty places where we're shoving people." According to the most recent statistics from the CDCR, California's 33 state prisons house 154,649 prisoners in facilities designed to hold just 84,271 prisoners. The Chino prison is among the worst, with 5,877 prisoners in a facility designed to hold...
...response, legislators passed AB 900, which earmarked $1.2 billion in jail-construction funding through state lease-revenue bonds. However, more than two years later, construction is still on hold as lawmakers quibble about the details. But it's not just a lack of buildings that is the problem. Says Krisberg: "Without programs and without services, the tensions that exist to begin with are going to be greatly exacerbated. The elected officials of California have been playing Russian roulette with the lives of the guards and the inmates in these prisons." (Read about California's growing prison crisis...
...illness was not given due weight and feel that he is unlikely to get proper mental-health care in prison. "It's throwing away a life without regard for the possibility that Kinkel could change or that the circumstances that led to this could be mediated," says Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. But Jennifer Alldredge, a student shot by Kinkel, is unmoved: "I don't see how you could ever justify someone who did this being outside and free to do this again," she says...
...mourning in Springfield has not prevented second-guessing. Should the school have helped more? Should police have detained Kinkel when he was first caught with a gun? Officials insist they were following the law in releasing a juvenile with no criminal record to his parents. But Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency in San Francisco, asks, "If detention was not called for, where is the counseling? A child bringing a gun to school needs help." Now Kinkel will be tried as an adult, although under Oregon law he is too young to be subject...
...cases in which parents have suffered harsh penalties. Under a St. Clair Shores, Mich., ordinance, for example, a couple was fined $2,200 in 1996 after their son pleaded no contest to breaking and entering a church and drug-related charges. Their convictions were later overturned. Says Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency in San Francisco: "Parental-responsibility law is a gray area. It's a toothless tiger. We have no research on the laws' effectiveness...