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Wardens, advocates and CDCR officials debate rehabilitative programs and funding for women's prisons
Summary
At the subcommittee hearing, CDCR officials highlighted gains in education and career training at women's prisons, while advocates and formerly incarcerated speakers urged modernized vocational training, expanded community-based programs and $20 million for the RITE grant to reach more participants.
Officials from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and community advocates told Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 6 that rehabilitative programming in women's prisons has expanded but still has gaps that hinder reentry and employment prospects.
"Academic education allows for growth through literacy, basic education, earning a high school diploma or GED, and enrolling in college," Amy Casillas, director of CDCR's Division of Rehabilitative Programs, told the committee as she summarized recent program outcomes. Casillas said that in the past three fiscal years nearly 6,000 students earned a GED or high school diploma, 2,800 earned associate through master's degrees, and more than 8,000 completed…
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