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California’s Solution To Prison Overcrowding: $7.4 Billion To Build 53,000 New Beds

California's Solution To Prison Overcrowding: $7.4 Billion To Build 53,000 New Beds

by Marvin Mentor

Faced with three federal judges threatening to place a population cap on California's overcrowded prison system, the state Legislature and Governor Schwarzenegger "cured" the problem in May 2007 by authorizing $7.4 billion in non-voter approved ...

 

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