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CA: Cuts for schools and health care but money for a new death row

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Governor approves new San Quentin Death Row Bob Egelko, SF Chronicle Staff Writer Thursday, July 30, 2009 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has given the go-ahead for construction of a new Death Row at San Quentin State Prison by vetoing legislative restrictions, an action that a Marin County lawmaker called both unwise and illegal. While announcing $489 million in cuts Tuesday from the state's 2009-10 budget, Schwarzenegger said he was saving additional, unspecified amounts by rejecting language added to the budget that would have delayed the Death Row project. Legislators approved $356 million last year for a 768-cell housing unit for condemned prisoners, tentatively scheduled to open in late 2011. It would replace a section of the 150-year-old prison that now holds nearly 670 inmates, the nation's largest Death Row...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 30, 2009 (boomark / email).