"The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation appears to be following the 'last in, first out' rule, putting rehabilitation and education programs on the chopping block as it strives to trim $1.2 billion from its overall budget.
That's a bit over a 10 percent cut. Yet the decision to slash $250 million from rehabilitation and education services will reduce those programs by more than one-third.
These are the programs the state beefed up two years ago, after a decade of studies showed that dealing with things like low literacy levels and substance abuse would save money in the long run by reducing recidivism rates."