Jails and Colleges
- Share via
Gov. Pete Wilson has introduced his new crime bill and it will make it easier to put people in jail, and for longer periods of time (Jan. 22). In his budget for this year, Wilson proposed raising the fees for students attending community colleges, state colleges, and the University of California.
Most reasonable people will agree that putting a person in college now will probably keep them out of jail later. Also, it would seem that California would be better served if its citizenry had spent time in college rather than in jail.
Why then does it seem that Wilson would rather put people in jail than in college?
WILLIAM HOMANN
San Marcos
More to Read
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Dr. Vanessa J. Díaz, professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at Loyola Marymount University and co-author of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance.
