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TAKE ACTION: STOP PRISON EXPANSION IN CALIFORNIA!

Urge the California Department of Corrections to REJECT the "California Model"—Governor Newsom's ill-defined proposal to rebrand California state prisons. Instead of saving California billions by closing more state prisons, the 2023-24 Enacted Budget allocates $380 million to construction for the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. Replicating the "California Model" in other prisons across the state would cost more than $20 billion over 25 years. The California Model's focus on a "new philosophy of incarceration" is contradictory to and a distraction from urgent decarceration priorities. With continued downward trends in the incarcerated population, the state MUST continue to move forward with more prison closures, releases, and investments in community-based services proven to support our communities more than prisons ever could.

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Subject: Feedback on the California Model

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The “California Model” fails to address two critical issues: that there are too many people in prisons and too many prisons in California. CDCR remains a money pit with a poor track record of implementing reform, and there is no reason to believe that this significant $380 million allotment to “transform” SQ will be any different—especially since the vast majority of this funding has already been senselessly earmarked for the construction of unnecessary new buildings rather than the rehabilitative support requested by those who are incarcerated. While we want people living in unsafe prisons to thrive, this cannot happen under the supervision of a rogue department like CDCR. <br><br>Sinking hundreds of millions into this project undermines the Newsom Administration's stated commitment to shrinking our state’s prison system. The LAO and the legislature have both affirmed that closing more prisons—not reinventing them—is the correct next step. We must reinvest these dollars into community-based services for communities most impacted by incarceration, prioritize decarceration, and close prisons in California.

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