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...Chertoff is the Administration's front man for an immigration-reform bill that has something for everyone to hate. From the beginning, he has pushed for a holistic approach to immigration that combines stronger enforcement of the existing laws with a way for workers to enter the country lawfully to minimize illegal traffic across the borders. That has left Chertoff acting as referee between Senators hammering out tough compromises. South Carolina's Republican Senator Lindsey Graham calls him the sherpa who guided lawmakers from both sides of the aisle through the complex issues...
...consultant to the California Corrections and Rehabilitation Department, Joan Petersilia is also a professor of criminology at University of California Irvine and director of its Center on Evidence-Based Corrections, which is funded by the prisons department. An expert on prison reform, she offers her thoughts on how to solve the myriad problems in the nation's largest corrections system as it faces the threat of federal supervision...
...optimistic that the California system can be reformed by political leaders, or will the federal authorities have step in? I don't have a crystal ball on whether the courts will intervene. Everyone in California, including the courts, is frustrated because they want to see things happen faster than they have been. But this is not a sprint; it is a marathon. The department of corrections has been promising reform for years and hasn't been able to deliver. So, there is a real possibility that there will be a court-ordered cap on the prison population in the state...
...prisons department is only allowed to build all of the new proposed beds in phases over the next decade. Officials can't get more money from the legislature for future prison building projects until they reach identified benchmarks showing they have accomplished implementing some rehabilitation, education and parole reform programs. The state's inspector general will chair an independent body that will develop the standards and audit compliance. That aspect gets overshadowed by the tremendous amount of money going to new prison beds, but it's important...
...rehabilitation or chances of staying out of trouble]. It also has a similar parole system to ours where, instead of a discretionary parole board with authority to keep back the most violent convicts, everyone who is released is automatically put on parole supervision. Illinois made a major commitment to reform in 2002 and has stayed the course. [Early results indicate that Illinois officials are succeeding in lowering re-incarceration rates, raising participation in drug treatment programs and increasing parolee employment.] I look at the progress there and see how far behind we are and where we could...