The much-ballyhooed prison reform package that rocketed through the Legislature and was signed by the governor this week is already drawing fire from several quarters. Here's our editorial on the issue from today's Bee.

A lot got left out of the legislation in the rush to photo-op in Sacramento. Among the important elements stripped from the bill were a review of the tangled state sentencing structure, changes in the dysfunctional parole system and a widely praised proposal to house 4,500 nonviolent female offenders in correctional centers near their homes, instead of the more costly alternative of state prison.

Nor is it clear that the three federal judges who have California's prison system in their judicial sights will buy the "reform" as adequate, according to The Sacramento Bee's Andy Furillo.

But my favorite reaction, reported by Jenifer Warren in the L.A Times, came from Franklin Zimring, a professor and corrections expert at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law. He said, "This is a deal about practical politics and beds. So it's going to satisfy the Sealy mattress company, and that's about it.'"