Our recent posts and discussion of the budget cuts made me think more generally about how the financial crisis can be an opportunity to reverse the punitive pendulum. My op-ed in the San Francisco Bay Guardian offers some ideas in that direction, which may not be new to readers of this blog. I hope we’ll be able to rise to the occasion and make the most of what is a very dire situation.
Some Reactions to the Budget Cut Pandemonium
For some more reactions on the budgetary issue, and how prison cuts fit into the picture, here are a few things worth reading:
The SF Bay Guardian political blog features Just A Guy’s perspective on how a policy of early releases with no rehabilitation programs to speak of is destined to fail.
And Jonathan Simon, blogging on Governing Through Crime, is urging Gov. Schwarzenegger to fire his wife.