For Real Prison Reform, Longer is Not Always Better

“Last week, while defiantly declaring the end of California’s prison crisis, Gov. Jerry Brown insisted further reductions in prison overcrowding ​“cannot be achieved without the early release of inmates serving time for serious or violent felonies,” a move that would ​“jeopardize public safety.”…This unfounded assumption is used to justify a large and growing mass of the state’s unnecessary incarceration.”