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Government

Feb. 19, 2010

With Everything Gone, What's Next?

Trial and appellate lawyer Dan Lawton concludes his tale exploring a time where California is left broken and bankrupt.

By Dan Lawton

At first people freaked out about what would happen to the prisons and jails and all the prisoners. But the Governor had been thinking hard about that, and Mulanix had the answers. The state was selling them off lock stock and barrel to CCA, the Correctional Corp. of America, for $144 billion in cash, enough to pay four months' back interest on the bonds held by the First People's Bank of Shanghai. CCA was glad to take over. It was planning on firing all the...

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