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CA: Prison spending gets a boost and Higher Ed & Health and Human Services Cut

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

----AND.....Health and Human Services would be cut $5.78 billion and higher education cut $1.8 billion. Prison spending gets a boost in budget January 10, 2011 PolitiCal---On politics in the Golden State One place where Gov. Jerry Brown is prepared to spend more is California's chronically overcrowded prisons: the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's budget would climb from $8.9 billion this year to $9.1 billion in the coming budget year under the new governor's plan. Among the uses of the new funds would be to "fully fund the salary and wages of authorized Correctional Officers" and to "correct for a decline in the number of overtime hours available" to department employees, according Brown's budget summary. The prison guards union supported Brown with contributions and sponsored attack ads against his Republican rival Meg Whitman during the fall campaign, and their annual convention in Las Vegas last month was one of Brown's first speaking engagements as governor-elect...continue to full post

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