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MI-CA: Gov. Granholm offers to cage some of California's prisoners

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

State may take Calif. inmates By Dawson Bell ? Free Press Lansing Bureau ? June 29, 2009 LANSING ? Gov. Jennifer Granholm offered empty beds in Michigan prisons to house inmates from California today as the Golden State seeks solutions to prison overcrowding and a massive budget deficit. Advertisement Granholm sent a letter to California Gov. Arnold Schwarznegger after speaking to him personally, in which she called the offer an ?opportunity (that) has great potential and could be mutually beneficial.? Granholm said several empty facilities and soon-to-be-vacated prisons in Standish and Muskegon could be available. California faces the prospect of being forced to release tens of thousands of inmates to ease overcrowding, even as it addresses a $24...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 29, 2009 (boomark / email).