Prisons In Crisis: A State Of Emergency In California

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Prisons In Crisis: A State Of Emergency In California

From: JoAnn Mar
Length: 00:58:58

California's prison crisis--how it started and possible solutions. Read the full description.

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"Prisons In Crisis" is a one-hour radio documentary that highlights some of the major parts of California's current crisis in its prison system and describes how it started--how tough-on-crime legislation and the zero tolerance policies of the 80's and 90's led to more convictions, longer sentences, and an explosion in the prison population. California now has the highest prison population and the highest recidivism rate in the country--prisons are overcrowded, prison medical care and mental health care are in chaos, and its juvenile detention system has been called the worst in the nation. This program describes how the crisis is finally forcing policy makers, politicians, and government officials to reconsider the punitive policies of the past two decades and consider alternative approaches to incarceration and parole.

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PRISONS IN CRISIS--A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN CALIFORNIA

Part 1

Grassroots Prison Radio presents--"Prisons In Crisis--A
State Of Emergency In California."

(To SFX 1/Sound collage)

Robert Sillen "It's sort of unbelievable--this is California in
the 21st century."

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger "When I took office 3-and-a-half
years ago, we had inherited a broken prison system that was
dangerously overcrowded and was totally out of control"

Raymond "In my first term, when I went to prison, I was cut in
my throat right here and I had to be in hospital for three
weeks."

Michael Bien "My clients are suffering right now, the
correctional officers and the medical staff are all suffering
right now."

Pat Nolan "We're locking away thirty years to life people who
stole six or seven childrens' videos or someone who stole a
sandwich."

Chuck Alexander "The public's in an uproar about a...
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Timing and Cues

Program is self-contained.
Two 30 second music beds at 14:34 and 37:26

Musical Works

Title	Artist	Album	Label	Year	Length
"Woman At The Tier"	Suzanne Vega	Dead Man Walking.	Columbia	1995	00:30
"Liquid Moon"	Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke	The Insider.	Columbia	1999	01:00
"Broken"	Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke	The Insider.	Columbia	1999	00:15
"Steps"	Mickey Hart	The Apolcalypse Now Sessions.	Ryko	1989	00:15
"Village Entrance Theme"	Robyn Miller	Riven.	Virgin	1998	00:15
"Earth"	David Darling	Dark Wood.	ECM	1995	00:30
"Amazing Grace"	Judy Collins	Forever.	Elektra	1997	00:30
"See That My Grave Is Kept Clean"	Kelly Joe Phelps	Roll Away The Stone.	Ryko	1997	00:15
"Ever More Other"	David Torn	Prezens.	ECM	2007	00:15
"Passing Cloud"	Stephen Micus	The Garden Of Mirrors.	ECM	1997	01:00