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Perspective

Feb. 2, 2010

The Inmate Export Enterprise

Hadar Aviram of UC Hastings College of the Law asks whether out-of-state incarceration will really reduce expenditure per inmate in the long run.

By Hadar Aviram

Much of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's legislative energy lately has been devoted to the need to cut our state's correctional expenditures. This goal has generated several proposals over the last couple of weeks, some of them mentioned in the "State of the State" address. The Governor's proposal to amend the California constitution so as to prevent correctional expenditures to exceed educational expenditures show, at least, a displeasure with the current sta...

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