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Cost Overruns in California

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The San Francisco Chronicle reports, "Death Row Cost Overrun: $40 million."The cost of new housing for San Quentin State Prison's growing number of Death Row inmates will exceed estimates by nearly $40 million, and the compound could run out of space soon after it is completed, according to a state auditor's report released Tuesday. The auditor's new $395.5 million price tag for the project, which is expected to be completed by 2011, is new bad news for a state facing billions of dollars in budget shortfalls. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democrat-controlled Legislature are still trying to hammer out a spending plan for the fiscal year that began nearly a month ago. California's prison system is already a big-ticket item, representing about 10 percent of roughly $100 billion general fund spending...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 30, 2008 (boomark / email).