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• Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) is a broad-based coalition of over 40 organizations seeking to CURB prison spending by reducing the number of people in prison and the number of prisons in the state. 

• CURB seeks member organizations who are working on issues related to the prison industrial complex and organizations concerned about our state budget priorities.

David ChavezMovement BuilderYouth Justice [email protected]

The rise in higher education fees

and the huge dip in California’s K-

12 public school per-pupil

spending, 1980 - present,

corresponds directly to the

dramatic rise in the prison

population in the same time

period.

• On April 23rd, the Department of Corrections and Rehabiliation released The Future of California’s Corrections.  The plan reflects some important changes that Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB), our members, and communities have been recommending for years.

• The CDCR is proposing to cancel $4.1 billion in remaining bond authorization for prison and jail construction. The bonds were authorized in 2007 under the notorious AB 900, a plan to build 53,000 new prison and jail beds that passed with no public review and immediately provoked public outrage. CURB has been calling for the cancellation of all AB 900 bonds.

• These changes are important steps forward that are a direct response to the hard work of residents across the state.  While CDCR’s proposal is a big step in the right direction, it still leaves $1.9 billion on the table for prison and jail expansion, proposes that CDCR’s will petition the courts to increase the ceiling of overcrowding from 137.5% to 145%, and convert Valley State Prison for Women into a men's prison.

WHAT HAS REALIGNMENT LOOKED LIKE FOR LOS ANGELES COUNTY SO FAR?

•LA County Received 112.5 Million from realignment.

•Less than 9% is accessible to community based organizations.

•The other 91% went to hiring more sheriffs and probation officers.

•Sheriff Baca contracted 100 million from AB900 money to build a “Women’s Village” detention center in Wayside/Pitches Detention Center

•Sheriff is now proposing on shipping people to Delano and Bakersfield facilities, especially for people convicted on Non-Non-Non crimes.