Administrative/Regulatory
Dec. 18, 2009
Hope for a Broken System
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pushed through parole reform this year, promising it would ease the state's battered budget. But the charges are limited and their ultimate impact remains unclear.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
After a decade of complaints by corrections experts that the state's parole system is overloading the state's prisons while failing to reform ex-convicts, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger finally pushed through a reform package this year, promising it would reduce the strain on the state's battered budget.
But the changes, which take effect in late January, only address a slice of w...
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