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intrepidity

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Thu Mar 16, 2023, 04:46 PM Mar 2023

California to transform San Quentin prison with Scandinavian ideas, rehab focus

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/california-to-transform-san-quentin-prison-with-scandinavian-ideas-rehab-f/

The vision for a new San Quentin includes job training for careers that can pay six figures, trades such as plumbers, electricians or truck drivers, and using the complex as a last stop of incarceration before release. Tucked in the proposed budget Newsom released weeks ago is $20 million to jump-start the effort.

The plan for San Quentin is "not just about reform, but about innovation," a chance to "hold ourselves to a higher level of ambition and look to completely reimagine what prison means," Newsom said.

Along with Pennsylvania, the Scandinavian philosophy of incarceration has already been implemented in pilot programs in Oregon and ultra-red North Dakota, as well as in small-scale experiments inside a few other California prisons.

But what's envisioned for San Quentin is on a different scale. The choice of this prison, tucked on a peninsula in wealthy Marin County and overlooking San Francisco Bay, is a statement by Newsom about justice reform and about California — one with the potential not only to change what it means to serve time, but also to create a pathway to safer communities that our current system has failed to deliver.
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California to transform San Quentin prison with Scandinavian ideas, rehab focus (Original Post) intrepidity Mar 2023 OP
I hope it's successful! 2naSalit Mar 2023 #1
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