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CA: Anatomy of a Prison Crisis

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Anatomy of a Prison Crisis By Joe Domanick October 13th, 2010 The Crime Report How Arnold Schwarzenegger tried (and failed) to fix California?s dysfunctional prison system Dressed in a navy-blue windbreaker emblazoned with the gold seal of The Great State of California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger leans out a watchtower window and, as cameras click furiously below, stares through a tangle of razor-sharp concertina wire onto the sprawling, pentagon-shaped grounds of Mule Creek State Prison. It?s August, 2004, and Schwarzenegger, fresh on the heels of his stunning victory in a raucous November 2003 recall election, is taking a choreographed tour of the 886-acre facility built in the tree-studded foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. Mule Creek is a maze of double-tiered, steel and concrete cellblocks that house 3,700 inmates?one of 33 mammoth prisons that dot California?s rural back country and make up the largest corrections system in the nation?and the third largest in the world, with 300,000 adult prisoners and parolees, a $6 billion annual budget and 54,000 employees...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 14, 2010 (boomark / email).