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10A Page 18 !"�:':. ;��.�, ��,..,,�N >;- ,.�5 i.�.f£ �Gc .r i,�- :z s �>. .. n. a. ; a s :� � s :;, r r. �. � .� k c�. �i t: � e� ,t s� x r� c: .., a � xs :r �<- � �.�, ;e :. .. h While AB 900 passed off the Assembly Floor Details of the Pfan with virtually no discussion, the measure faced a larger hurdle in the Senate. The plan was debated The prison plan will be funded primarily through primarily by Repubiicans, who said they needed lease revenue bonds. It also includes local match more time to renew the plan after having just hours funding for county jail facilities as well as General to study the language befire the vote. Fund appropriations. The plan adds 53,000 beds to new and existing state and local facilities in two Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata revealed phases as follows: that while the plan isn't ideai, action was needed to Phase I: avoid federal involvement. • 12,000 infi�l beds at existing state facilities "Democrats are not in favor of the plan as a • 6,000 beds a# re-entry facilities whole, but the LegislaYure has not acted to give • 6,000 beds at health care facilities Governor Schwarzenegger the authority or plan to • 8,000 beds at county jail facilities deal with the overpopulation issue," Perata said. "Something has to be done now to avoid the federal Phase fl: government from taking over Caiiforn;a's priscn system." • 4,000 infill beds at existing state #acili#ies • 10,000 beds at re-entry facilities Sen. Pera#a also said that the AB 900 plan is • 2,000 beds at health care facilifies more responsible than many of the measures that • 5,000 beds at county jail facilities move through the Legislature because it cor:ains two phases. Specificaliy, it requires reporting on the in addition, the plan includes the follflwing: success of Phase I prior to seeking authorization to implement Phase il. • Transfer of inmates to out of state prison facil ities Re-entry Facilities, a Role for Cities? • Mitigation funds for local gavernments impacted by prison facilities (details are While much of the two-phased plan calls for not yet avaifable) 16,OQ0 "infill" beds at existing prisons, of particular • Funding for infrastructure improvements at interest Ea local gavernments is the addition of facilities expected to receive infill beds i6,0�0 "re-entry" beds at faci;iiies at Yne iocdi ievel. • Program requirerraents for facilities accr�m- These "re-entry" beds would be used to house modating infi[I beds to include short-term parole violators and inmates in the final academic or voca#ionaf education, drug months of their terms. treatment, work programs, etc. • Mental health day treatment programs Each facility would include 500 beds and house • The development o# a "prison-to-work" inrnates within one year prior to being released program from custody. The plan stipu{ates that re-entry • Establishes an 11-member CorrectionaE faciiities will only be cited in communities that Rehabilitation Oversight Baard request a facifity and a city or county has authority to identify the proposed iocation of the facility. Updates to this issue will be reported in Priority Facus and on the Public Safety section of the The purpose of the re-entry facilities is to break League's Web site (www.cacities.ora/ps) as #hey California's entrenched cycle of parolee failure. develop. The goal is to red��ce p�st-release crimina! �e�:a��- ior of high risk offenders by returning parolees to their county of last legal residence, and to scale back the failure rate of at-risk parolees revoked with no new prison term. ......BF$1;.d1.3C:'::':.•�1.�tx`t1;. �. Visit the League's Official Website--www.cacities.org PRIORITY FOCUS - PAGE 7 Apri1 27, 2007 - Issue#16