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| Assemblyman may hold prison money in murder dispute |
| By AP |
| Published: 02/14/2005 |
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A California assemblyman who oversees corrections spending says he will withhold the prison system's entire administration budget unless he gets more answers about the stabbing death last month of the first corrections officer to die in an inmate assault since 1996. Administration officials say Assemblyman Rudy Bermudez is doing the bidding of the powerful officers' union _ of which he remains a member despite taking a leave of absence from his job as a parole officer. Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez is rejecting a demand from Corrections Director Jeanne Woodford that Bermudez be removed from chairing his budget subcommittee. Woodford contends Bermudez has "a glaring conflict of interest" because he remains a Department of Corrections employee. |
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