re: #423 albusteve

California is spending more than $8 billion on corrections this year, more than 10 percent of the massive state budget

[Link: reason.org…]

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in January called for a constitutional amendment that would cap prison spending and put the savings toward public universities. And since last summer, lawmakers have tried to wring more than $2 billion from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, once budgeted for $10 billion.

[Link: www.mercurynews.com…]

That’s not the union, though, that’s what we spend as a state on prisons.