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CA: Obama's Budget includes $105 million to finish two federal prisons including one in Mendota

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

May7, 2009: The $17 billion worth of cuts proposed Thursday accompanied the administration's overall budget package, which expands on a budget outline released in February. For instance, the overall budget includes $105 million to finish two new federal prisons, including a long-stalled facility in the town of Mendota. --------------------- Obama's budget contains $49.4 million for Mendota federal prison By Michael Doyle McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON ? A long-delayed federal prison in the economically troubled town of Mendota will be equipped starting next February with the help of $49.4 million in the Obama administration's proposed new budget. Local residents say it's about time. "This is something we've been waiting for," Mendota Mayor Robert Silva said in a telephone interview Monday...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 12, 2009 (boomark / email).