California has announced it will begin the process of closing Chuckwalla Prison in Riverside County, and plans are in the works for cutbacks at six more prisons – the closures and cutbacks will save the state $1.5 billion each year. We speak with Brian Kaneda, deputy director of Californians United for a Responsible Budget, or CURB, which is an organization dedicated to reducing imprisonment in our state by developing deep economic analyses about how it’s actually financially better for all of us, to reduce prisons.

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