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California’s Jail-building Boom: What Comes After Mass Incarceration? Local Incarceration.
Loaded on Feb. 2, 2016
by Anat Rubin
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2016, page 32
Filed under:
Failure to Treat,
Failure to Protect (General),
Overcrowding,
Jail Specific,
Probation.
Location:
California.
by Anat Rubin, Marshall Project
In the desert city of Indio, California halfway between Los Angeles and the Arizona border, a small monument to the state’s prison downsizing experiment is materializing in a shopping center storefront, where former felons will soon have access to health screenings, substance-abuse treatment, job training, ...
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