Issues in corrections :
the Adult Authority, determinate sentencing, and prison crowding, 1962-1982 :
oral history transcript /
interview conducted by Julie Shearer ; The Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office,
1984.

Description

Main Author

Way, Howard

Related Names

Shearer, Julie Gordon, interviewer.
Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Era Oral History Project.
Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.

Language(s)

English

Published

Berkeley, Calif : University of California, c1986.

Subjects

Rushen, Ruth.
Brown, Jerry, > Brown, Jerry, / 1938-
Reagan, Ronald.
California. > California. / Department of Corrections.
California. > California. / Adult Authority.
California. > California. / Board of Prison Terms.
California. > California. / Youth and Adult Correctional Agency.
Determinate Sentencing Act (1976)
California. > California. / Legislature. > California. / Legislature. / Senate.
Prison reformers > Prison reformers / California.
Oral histories.

Summary

Focuses on Way's career in the U.S. Senate, 1962-1976-- his criticism of Adult Authority; Senate presidency pro tem; Medi-Cal legislation; penal reform legislation in the 1970s; Determinate Sentencing Act of 1976; recollections of Ronald Reagan; Edmund G. Brown, Jr. administration: appointment to Board of Prison Terms, appointment as head of Youth and Adult Correctional Agency, replacing the Director of Corrections; views on prison reform.

Note

Interview is part of: Government History Documentation Project; Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Era Series.
Also available online.

Physical Description

Phonotapes: 4 sound cassettes : analog.
Transcript: [xiv], v, 68 leaves (1 v.)

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