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CA: State budget held hostage by prison costs

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

State budget held hostage by prison costs By Jim Lindburg Special to The Bee Published Tuesday, Nov. 09, 2010 The budget passed by the Legislature last month revealed the toxic relationship between California's financial crisis and California's prison crisis. In a move that truly turns logic on its head, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger cut $820 million for prison health care from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, crippling a system that has been placed under federal receivership because of gross patient neglect. Cutting nearly half the budget is an unlikely guarantee of basic, humane service provision, and harms those already suffering in already deplorable conditions. With regard to sentencing and prison overcrowding, the Legislature is seemingly unable to make decisions that make fiscal or moral sense...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 09, 2010 (boomark / email).