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More on Capital Costs in California

By Steve Hall

James Clark posts, "Cut This: The Death Penalty," at Huffington Post.  Clark is field organizer for the ACLU of Southern California.California's governor has proposed closing the state's $20 billion budget gap with a drastic cuts-only approach; slashing funding for vital human services without working to increase revenue. Yet one state program seems to be immune from these cuts: the death penalty. California spends vast amounts of money prosecuting death penalty cases and supporting death row. To avoid executing an innocent person, the death penalty process is long, complicated, and expensive. Each prosecution seeking death costs approximately $1.1 million more than a trial seeking permanent imprisonment, and with more than 700 inmates, California's death row is by far the largest and most costly in the nation...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 28, 2010 (boomark / email).