Newsom Proposes Expansive New Strategy To Combat Drug Addiction Spike in California’s State Prisons
LAPPL News Watch
May 14, 2019
Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing for California to spend more than $233 million over the next two years to battle substance abuse in the state's roughly three dozen prisons, an effort to stem the increasing frequency of inmate overdoses in recent years.
The governor's revised budget includes more than $71 this year and nearly $162 million the following year to help treat prisoners battling with addiction.
Health officials, inmate advocates and lawmakers who've been critical of the prison system's previous efforts to tackle the problem are applauding Newsom's proposal, which faces its first round of hearings on Tuesday.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The dumb shits are spending money on a problem that is helping to reduce the overcrowding of the state’s prisons.
2 comments:
Fentanyl is a game changer.
It is actually easy to end virtually all drug smuggling into prisons. Stop contact visiting. That requires political will, so it will not be done.
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