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CA Prison Budget Cuts Hurt Jail Plans

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

CA Prison Budget Cuts Hurt Jail Plans (Unknown Source) Posted: 11 Aug 2010 06:27 AM PDT State government has promised to chip in $26 million for a new jail in Calaveras County and $80 million for a jail expansion in San Joaquin County. So what could go wrong? Well, for one thing, state budget cuts to the prison system. Jail Financing- The state plans to come up with money for projects authorized under AB900, a law passed in 2008, by selling lease revenue bonds. Unlike traditional lease revenue bonds where the property financed is a money maker, the ?lease? in this case involves a rent payment of tax dollars from one state agency to another. The State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is supposed to pay rent to the State Public Works Board for use of the jail facilities...continue to full post

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