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| Spending plan lacks prisons legislation |
| By The Record |
| Published: 09/18/2008 |
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CALIFORNIA - Missing from the budget compromise reached this week in Sacramento was legislation needed to fund landmark prison reform designed to relieve overcrowding in state prisons and local lockups, state prison and local law enforcement officials said. The reform legislation includes $1.2 billion for local jail expansion, and San Joaquin County is slated to receive $80 million of that money to expand its overstuffed County Jail. If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger follows through with his pledge to veto the budget and the Legislature is unable to overturn the veto, then there will be another chance to alter AB900 this year. Language to "clean up" AB900 is necessary to pay for jail expansions and re-entry facilities, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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