CJCJ's Executive Director Daniel Macallair, is a practitioner-in-residence at San Francisco State University (SFSU)'s Department of Criminal Justice Studies. These slides are from his California Corrections System course materials.

1. Decline of rehabilitation and the
conservative backlash
The era of mass incarceration
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2. California Prison Population 1851-2010
(rate per 100,000)
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3. Major events of the 1970s
• 1973 Gate money increased to $200
• Indeterminant sentencing comes under
attack
• Publication of the Martinson Report 1974
• 1977 passage of the determinant
sentencing act (PC 1170)
• 1977 Reinstatement of the California
death penalty
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4. Determinate Sentence
Determinant sentencing goals:
A sentencing model that
 Punishment
establishes a narrow range
 Incapacitation
of punishment for a specific
 Retribution
crime, taking previous
 Restitution
criminal convictions into
 Public Safety
considerations.
 Deterrence
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5. Incapacitation Theory
General Incapacitation Selective Incapacitation
theory Theory
 argues that reductions in  premised on the
crime rates are achieved existence of a small but
through higher identifiable number of
imprisonment rates since offenders who can be
the offender cannot imprisoned and isolated
commit new crimes while from the rest of society.
incarcerated.
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6. The 1980s Prison Boom
 1852 -1980 – California builds total of 12 prisons
 1980 inmate population = 20,000
 1981 first prison bond passed by voters launches the
largest prison building effort in history
 1982 California voters pass Prop 8 creating the victims
Bill of Rights
 1982 Selective Incapacitation study published by RAND
 1984-94 Prison building era
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7. Funding the prison boom
 General obligation bonds
 Lease revenue bonds
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8. Total Number of Prisons in California by 1994
Total Number California
prisons: 33
 # of Prisons Built: 1852-
1984 = 12
 # of Prisons Built: 1984-
today = 21
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