{"id":2185,"date":"2007-12-11T11:35:25","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T17:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2007-12-11T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T17:36:00","slug":"californians-could-vote-on-sweeping-prison-reform-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/12\/11\/californians-could-vote-on-sweeping-prison-reform-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Californians Could Vote on Sweeping Prison Reform Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest121107\/2007_12_11_smith.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest121107\/2007_12_11_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/05\/15\/crowded.jpg\" alt=\"California Prison Reform\" \/><em>GUEST: Annie Smith, Executive Director of Families United for Prison Reform<\/em><\/p>\n<p>California voters could face two ballot prison reform measures next Fall. The Sentencing and Parole Reform initiative includes provisions that would repeal the \u201cThree Strikes\u201d law. And the Prisoner Rights initiative would, among other things, amend California\u2019s penal code to expand prisoners\u2019 visits with family members and news media. The measures will make it onto the November 2008 ballot if they garner signatures of at least 434,000 registered voters next February. A Southern California based non-profit group, Families United for Prison Reform, has begun gathering signatures since this past September. The number of inmates in California prisons has soared over the years, from nearly 25,000 in 1980 to more than 170,000 this year. This state has an incarceration rate of 475 per 100,000 residents, well above the national average of 445 per 100,000. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s state budget for 2007-2008 allocates $10 billion for prisons, compared to $12 billion for higher education. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiaprisonradio.org\">www.californiaprisonradio.org<\/a> or call 951-210-9149. To help gather signatures for these initiatives, call 323-864-3078. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Annie Smith, Executive Director of Families United for Prison Reform California voters could face two ballot prison reform measures next Fall. The Sentencing and Parole Reform initiative includes provisions that would repeal the \u201cThree Strikes\u201d law. And the Prisoner Rights initiative would, among other things, amend California\u2019s penal code to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}