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What if a tiny fraction of the California budget were dedicated to reducing mass incarceration and could save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, while also reuniting those who have served excessive sentences with their families and the communities they seek to serve? This is what the California state-funded Public Defender Pilot Program (PDPP) has shown can be done, but its funding is in jeopardy.
Over the past few years, state legi...
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