Guest Editorial: Jerry's “Brown-Nosin'” with California Prison GuardsDaniel Abrahamsonbyline‚ Nov. 04‚ 2008The California prison guards' union -- one of the state's richest and most reviled special-interest groups -- is funding a multi-million-dollar attack on Proposition 5, the Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act. The prison guards' newest ally is Jerry Brown, Attorney General and former Governor of California. Prop 5 is a modest and sensible reform of California's corrections system that promises to reduce the state's bloated prison population and, in the process, cut state spending by billions of dollars. The measure is supported by a wide-range of treatment professionals, good-government types and former high-ranking corrections and law enforcement officials. |