Norway's Reform Inspires California To Make Prison Life More Humane

CBS San Francisco

November 15, 2022

An estimated 95 percent of inmates serving time in California prisons will be released eventually. Based on statistics, it is likely that two-thirds of them will re-offend and return to prison within three years. But a new push within the prison system aims to change that.

A solution might be found more than 5,000 miles from the Golden State.

There isn't much Ed Borla hasn't seen in his 25 years in California's criminal justice system, first as a corrections officer and now as the deputy chief warden at Salinas Valley State Prison.

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