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Advocates push for sustained RITE funding and modernized vocational training for women leaving prison
Summary
Advocates, formerly incarcerated speakers and CDCR officials debated the scope and quality of rehabilitative and reentry programs for women in California prisons and pressed for sustained funding of community‑based programs, updated vocational training and expanded female reentry housing.
Advocates, formerly incarcerated people and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials appeared before the Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 6 to discuss rehabilitative programs and reentry supports for women in state prisons. Witnesses debated the quality of existing vocational training, community‑based rehabilitative programs and a proposed state grant to fund outside providers.
Why it matters: testimony linked access to meaningful rehabilitative programming with lower recidivism and safer reentry. Advocates urged the Legislature to sustain one‑time pilot investments and fund established community providers to expand trauma‑informed, gender‑responsive services for incarcerated women.
CDCR’s Division of Rehabilitative Programs director Amy Casillas reported enrollment and completion statistics: in the past three fiscal years nearly 6,000 incarcerated students earned a GED or…
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