Issues in corrections
Subtitle: the Adult Authority, determinate sentencing, and prison crowding, 1962-1982
By: interview conducted by Julie Shearer ; The Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office,
Contributors: Shearer, Julie Gordon.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Era Oral History Project.
Publisher: University of California
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Subjects: Reagan, Ronald.; Brown, Jerry, 1938-; Rushen, Ruth.; California. Legislature. Senate.; Determinate Sentencing Act (1976).; California. Youth and Adult Correctional Agency.; California. Board of Prison Terms.; California. Adult Authority.; California. Dept. of Corrections.; Prison reformers -- California.
Other titles: Government history documentation oral history series.
Description: Focuses on Way's career in the U.S. Senate, 1962-1976-- his criticism of Adult Authority; Senate presidency pro tem; Medi-Cal legislation; penal reform legislation in the 1970s; Determinate Sentencing Act of 1976; recollections of Ronald Reagan; Edmund G. Brown, Jr. administration: appointment to Board of Prison Terms, appointment as head of Youth and Adult Correctional Agency, replacing the Director of Corrections; views on prison reform.