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CA: Arsenic levels too high in Kern Valley State Prison's drinking water

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Later, the agency developed plans to add a filtration plant. It obtained $2.5 million from lawmakers for that purpose in 2006. But planners abandoned the idea, electing instead to incorporate the project into an overall prison expansion approved by lawmakers. Flaws in the legislation have postponed the expansion indefinitely. Arsenic levels too high in Kern Valley State Prison's drinking water Three years past deadline, California has no solid plan to reduce the arsenic, which has been linked to cancer. Officials spent money to design a filtration plant and then decided not to build it. By Michael Rothfeld December 29, 2008 Reporting from Delano - Beside a field of rolling tumbleweed in this remote Central Valley town, the state opened its newest prison in 2005 with a modern design, cutting-edge security features and a serious environmental problem...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 29, 2008 (boomark / email).