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CA: Down Prison Road--an excellent article on the March for California's future through the prison towns of the San Joaquin Valley to Sacramento

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Down Prison Road Tuesday 27 April 2010 by: David Bacon, t r u t h o u t | Report Chowchilla, California - High in the mountains overlooking Bakersfield and the south end of the San Joaquin Valley is a piece of California's past, the California Correctional Institution, or as inmates know it, Tehachapi. It was one of the state's first big prisons, built at the height of the Great Depression in 1933 to contain the unraveling social fabric of Hoovervilles, high unemployment, a vast influx of Dust Bowl refugees, and left-wing political movements spreading like wildfire. The penitentiary spreads across 1,650 acres of a remote desert valley. Designed for 2,785 inmates, it now holds 5,806 - 200% of an already inhumane standard. And while it was built as the original California Institute for Women, today its only inhabitants are men...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 28, 2010 (boomark / email).