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| Solutions Proposed For CA Prison Problems |
| By informant.kalwnews.org |
| Published: 10/13/2010 |
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We have a budget! (A few months late, but hey.) Closing a $17.9 billion shortfall will apparently involve federal aid, some delayed tax breaks, and here-and-there spending adjustments. And about $7.5 billion in cuts, including $1.1 billion from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. So where will that corrections money come from? We have some inkling: •Staffing will likely go down. Or at least change. Staff costs are currently about 80 percent of the prisons budget and likely candidates for spending cuts. A couple proposals are currently floating around. The first would change shifts for some prison guards from eight hours to 12 (which means only two shifts to staff per day, not three). That change would be piloted at High Desert, Pelican Bay, and Salinas Valley and would in all likelihood, have to be approved by the correctional officers’ union. The second proposal, of which details have not been released, involves staff cuts at Chino, Norco (where, incidentally, there was just a riot which some have linked to overcrowding and under-staffing), and California Institute for Men (where rioters were moved). •Medical care is supposed to take a big hit. Like $820 million. The Receiver seems to be on board with the cuts and thinks he’ll offset some of them with technology updates and streamlining. These cuts, if they happen, come in the wake of a major infusion of resources to prison medical care (though reports indicate there are still problems). Read More. |
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