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Community-led prison rehabilitation programs say ‘BRIGHT’ grants lower recidivism; groups ask legislature to restore funding
Summary
Community-based organizations and CDCR officials told a Senate subcommittee that rehabilitative programming supported by the BRIGHT (Right) grant reduces recidivism and requested more funding and clearer pathways for community providers to operate in prisons.
Representatives from CDCR and community-based providers described a portfolio of rehabilitative programs offered inside California prisons and urged continued or expanded funding for the state’s BRIGHT (referred to in testimony as the “right”) grant, which funds community‑led programming.
Deputy Director Denise Tanamoto, Division of Rehabilitative Programs at CDCR, said the department provides foundational services—basic and higher education, substance use disorder treatment and vocational training—and partners with community organizations and volunteers to deliver supplemental rehabilitative programs. Tanamoto pointed to…
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