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California prepares to expand 3 prisons! They won't stop!

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

California prepares to expand 3 prisons By DON THOMPSON Associated Press Writer Published: Wednesday, Apr. 1, 2009 SACRAMENTO -- The head of California's prison system said Wednesday that he will soon ask state legislators to approve expanding three prisons to hold an additional 2,800 inmates, adding to what already is the nation's largest state prison system. The construction projects would be the first to draw money from a nearly $8 billion bond measure approved by lawmakers two years ago. The money has been stalled ever since by drafting problems that were corrected in the budget legislation that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law in February. Corrections Secretary Matthew Cate said he plans to seek approval within weeks to build cellblocks for about 900 inmates each at high-security Kern Valley and medium-security North Kern state prisons, both near Delano...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 04, 2009 (boomark / email).