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California's
Y2K
(+1)
Crisis
4/9/99
Marc Brandl,
[email protected]
California is running out of
prison space. Even after years of a building frenzy during which
construction on prisons has outnumbered new colleges by 19 to 1, the state's
prisons will be filled to capacity by April of 2001. According to
the California secretary for state prisons, Robert Presley, "By then, we
will have exhausted every nook and cranny."
In anticipation of the crisis,
"the [state prison] agency as well as the administration is looking into
a broad spectrum of options," Lisa Buetler, an agency spokesperson, told
the Week Online. "These alternatives may include drug treatment facilities
and that sort of thing. At this time we are in an exploratory phase
and it would be premature to identify anything specifically."
Currently, only one bill
in the state legislature has addressed the issue -- by proposing a $4 billion
dollar prison construction bond. That bill, introduced by Assemblyman
Bill Leonard (R-Rancho Cucamonga), would go before voters in March of 2000.
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Issue #86, 4/9/99
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