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NY Times Editorial: The California Prison Disaster

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

October 25, 2008 The California Prison Disaster Editorial NY Times The mass imprisonment philosophy that has packed prisons and sent corrections costs through the roof around the country has hit especially hard in California, which has the largest prison population, the highest recidivism rate and a prison budget raging out of control. According to a new federally backed study conducted at the University of California, Irvine, the state?s corrections costs have grown by about 50 percent in less than a decade and now account for about 10 percent of state spending ? nearly the same amount as higher education. The costs could rise substantially given that a federal lawsuit may require the state to spend $8 billion to bring the prison system?s woefully inadequate medical services up to constitutional standards...continue to full post

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