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Budget woes might get in way of California's plans for "Cadillac" death row

By Douglas A. Berman

This interesting new Bloomberg piece, headlined "California's 'Cadillac' Death Row Complex Target in Budget Talks," spotlights an interesting on-going debate about costs for the state with the largest death row in the nation.  Here are excerpts: California is set to begin construction of a new death row, already the biggest in the U.S., at a cost to taxpayers of as much as $1 billion, even though it may reach capacity in as little as three years.  Contracts for the unit at San Quentin prison may be awarded in weeks. The complex would replace cells there dating as far back as 1927.  The project, at 540,000 square feet (50,000 square meters), would be about the size of the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford. Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, is negotiating with lawmakers to plug a $25...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 04, 2011 (boomark / email).