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Credit Crunch or Overstuffed Prisons? Why does Arnold Schwarzenegger want $7 billion from the feds?

Though the Governator linked his recent request for a federal bailout to falling housing prices and the crushing credit crunch, most of the cash will probably go to pay for inmate health care under a federal court order:U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson made it clear Monday he expects California to pay $8 billion for seven new inmate medical facilities. But he stopped short of immediately holding Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state Controller John Chiang in contempt for failing to turn over the money.California requests $7 billion in federal bailout aid at the same moment they're about to be held in contempt for not ponying up for an $8 billion prisoner health care tab. Unbelievable.Their Legislature failed to provide a solution, so that clears the way for federal courts to simply order them into compliance...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 07, 2008 (boomark / email).