Title: Reducing California's prison population and recidivism rate
Description: "California spends about $10 billion a year on its prison system.  But for all that money it has failed to make our communities safer while producing an abysmal 70 percent recidivism rate ... a hearing to investigate how improving access to mental health and substance abuse services for parolees, probationers and at-risk groups can result in lower incarceration and recidivism rates"--Page 1.
Subjects: Recidivism, Prevention, Recidivists, Rehabilitation, Ex-convicts, Mental health services, Drug use, Treatment, Deinstitutionalization, Mentally ill offenders
Places: California