Prison expansion hasn't just contributed significantly to our budget deficits for three decades. It's also caused intergenerational harm to Black communities and other marginalized Californians despite unprecedented public awareness of the systemic problems and wasteful spending endemic to state prisons.
Newsom's experiment with Nordic-style incarceration, dubbed the California Model, doesn't adequately confront the problems plaguing California prisons. It might even be a Trojan horse for more irresponsible prison spending. While an overhyped retail crime wave has been used to justify
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