Talk:Prisons in California

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This article sounds more like opinion than fact. Very little sources are cited.

Wikiproject Prisons

If anyone's interested, I've proposed a new wikiproject for the creation and improvement of articles regarding specific prisons, internment camps, and detention centers here. --Cdogsimmons (talk) 02:13, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Removed paragraph

Supposedly, prisons produce stability in the community. The four justifications for imprisonment are retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, and incapacitation. Prisons justified by retribution aims to punish criminals for their bad acts, and is a moral/ethical judgment of the criminal that is independent of any benefit to society that prisons may bring. Deterrence claims that prisons prevent or reduce crime through creating fear in potential criminals of going to prison. Rehabilitation through prison would change the "bad" person into a "good" person, perhaps by giving them job training, exposing them to different moral systems like religion, or forcing them to consider the error of their ways. Incapacitation states that prisons reduce crime by preventing the criminal from performing future crimes in society while the prisoner is confined in prison.^{[citation needed]}

This paragraph has no applicability to California prisons in particular. Moved to the talk page for further discussion. --Janus303 (talk) 05:42, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removed graph

The graph showed that crime rates went down in inverse proportion to imprisonment rates. It was the equivalent of 'weasel language,' implying that imprisonment rates lower crime. Coincidence does not equal causation. I'll be watching this. Tapered (talk) 03:24, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Improvements and Current Information needed

The placement of the political opinion in the first paragraph marks this as a problem page. The mention of Governor Davis without mention of his successors over the next ten years seems to indicate a lack of current relevance in the article. Current issues in the subject matter are not covered (lawsuits and court orders regarding overcrowding, number of guards, emergence of privately operated facilities, increasing medical costs in prisons). The California Department of Corrections is barely mentioned and the controversial "blueprint" released April, 2012 postdates any edits on the page. ^[1] ^[2] ^{[citation needed]}

Gerald H -oldeststudent2004- (talk) 05:30, 21 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttp://www.cdcr.ca.gov/

[2] ttp://www.cdcr.ca.gov/2012plan/docs/plan/complete.pdf

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