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| CA senate approves scaled-down plan |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/31/2006 |
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LOS ANGLES, CA - Stopgap measures designed to ease crowding in the nation's largest prison system won approval by the state Senate on Wednesday but fell far short of the $6 billion building program sought by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Democratic alternative, with a much more modest price tag of $918 million, lets the administration add 5,340 beds at 11 existing state prisons. But it requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to return next year for permission to proceed with other construction. "This is not the solution, this is a step. If we're not willing to take that step, we have to deal with the consequences," said Sen. Mike Machado, D-Linden, who negotiated and carried several of the bills. "This is a question of public safety. ... To not do anything leaves our prison system in a very unsafe and crowded condition...Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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