California should reduce prison sentences, panel recommends
“Research shows that long prison sentences do not improve public safety and produce significant racial disparities,” said the Committee on Revision of the Penal Code. Although the state’s prison population of 95,000 is its lowest since 1990, the committee said, “high incarceration rates and alarming racial disparities continue to plague our system.”
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