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GUEST: Diana Zuniga, Statewide Co-Coordinator of Californians United for a Responsible Budget.

Gov. Jerry Brown just signed into law Senate Bill 219, championed by state senator Carol Liu. The bill is intended to close loopholes in an earlier law that was aimed at keeping together families broken apart by mass incarceration. Known as the Alternative Custody Act, the law is aimed primarily at mothers. Yesterday on our program we talked about fatherhood after prison. Today, we’ll examine how mothers in California who are imprisoned might be able to reunite with their families.

For more information, visit curbprisonspending.org.