http://www.bakersfield.com/state_wire/story/5244730p-5274282c.html
The Associated Press
Here's a look at the proposal to reorganize the state's prison system:
- The Youth and Adult Correctional Agency becomes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
- The department contains adult and youth divisions, replacing the current California Youth Authority and adult Department of Corrections.
- Administrative functions are consolidated under a new division providing both youth and adult institutions with education, rehabilitation, health care, training, psychological, vocational and other services.
- A new joint parole division and Board of Parole Hearings replaces current separate youth and adult parole boards.
- Internal affairs units that independently serve the adult and youth agencies are consolidated.
- Wardens - whom critics say have too much power - would no longer be appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate, but would be hired and fired at will and stripped of some administrative duties.
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What happens next:
- The Little Hoover Commission makes a recommendation to the governor and Legislature on the administration's reorganization plan. Legislators can't change anything, but a majority vote in either the Senate or Assembly in 30 days can block the reorganization.
If approved, the shift would take place in July.
Place your bets.
yeah, right!
the mexican mafia controls california prisons.
When programs don't work, simply change the name. Somewhere in the correctional process (whatever that is) we fail to consider that not only the majority of crominals have no interest in "new and innovative" governmental rehabilitative concepts, but lack the motivation to conform to societal standards.