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| Calif. Gov. Budget Plan Spares Prisons |
| By San Francisco Chronicle |
| Published: 01/14/2003 |
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Gov. Gray Davis says California's deflated economy and yawning budget deficit will mean hard choices, including slashed spending on everything from colleges to cancer research. But times apparently aren't so bad for the state's prisons. The governor, who has accepted more than $3 million in campaign contributions from the prison guards' union, wants to increase the Department of Corrections budget while cutting funds for nearly everything else. The plan has angered some lawmakers and scores of advocates for the poor, elderly and disabled, who argue the governor continues to favor the politically powerful union. 'California can be tough on crime, but we don't need a fat prison budget while we throw the poor, sick and disabled to the wolves,' said state Sen. Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, chairwoman of a Senate committee on prisons. 'We can't have a of the cuts going to people who don't have powerful advocates in Sacramento.' The prisons proposal sets up a politically volatile debate involving the union, the Democratic governor and liberal lawmakers from the governor's own party. Davis' budget proposes spending $5.27 billion on the Department of Corrections, up nearly 1 percent. In contrast, the governor wants to reduce state spending on the University of California by 4.2 percent and California State University by 4.5 percent. |
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