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| 6,900 beds cut in plan |
| By Sacaramento Bee |
| Published: 02/20/2008 |
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CALIFORNIA - California's $7.9 billion prison construction and rehabilitation plan will provide at least 6,900 fewer beds than previously promised and take longer to complete, according to testimony at a legislative hearing Tuesday and interviews with corrections officials. An expansion plan slated for existing prisons has been downsized from 16,000 to 13,000 beds, officials from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told lawmakers at a state Senate Public Safety Committee hearing. The expansion beds will now cost $222,000 each, or 48 percent more than originally estimated, and won't come on line until December 2009 – 11 months later than originally scheduled. The construction plans became law last year under Assembly Bill 900, which promised a total of 53,000 new beds. The reconfigured plans may require millions more in funds that have yet to be allocated. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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