Check and Balance

Today the California Senator Jackie Spier presided over the Select Committee on Government Cost Control. She heard testimonies from program administrators for inmate drug and mental health programs how funds were misused by different departments.

Roderick Hickman, the secretary of Corrections, is quitting his job after being in the position for two years. The newly named Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation did not change the condition and environment that promote punishment. How can anyone realistically expect the rehabilitation prisoners when funding for inmate programs is cut?! How can taxpayers expect a safer community when prisoners reentering society without support and marketable skills cannot survive?

Somebody needs to be checked.