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CA: Editorial: Turn prisons into places of learning

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

June 23, 2008 Lompoc Record (CA) Turn prisons into places of learning There is a high-noon showdown approaching, and the outcome may have a profound effect on California's future. The state's massive prison system health-care operations are technically in receivership, and a federal court-appointed overseer last week accused lawmakers and the governor of ?deliberate obstruction? with regard to the $7 billion he says is needed to build seven new prison medical facilities. He threatens to seize the funds needed from the state budget, which is already an estimated $15 billion-plus in arrears. Lawmakers can laugh about it, if that suits them, but it's no idle threat. Receiver Clark Kelso, appointed to oversee prison operations the courts believe are being poorly managed by the state, has the power to order such a seizure, and the state would be compelled to pay...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 23, 2008 (boomark / email).