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Government,
Criminal

Mar. 4, 2020

Assembly subcommittee takes testimony urging closure of two state prisons

The informational hearing by the Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Public Safety dove into the department’s proposed $13.4 billion budget for the 2020-21 fiscal year on Monday, though legislators did not take a vote.

The legislative budget subcommittee in charge of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation discussed a topic this week that might have seemed inconceivable a generation ago: closing prisons.

The informational hearing by the Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Public Safety dove into the department’s proposed $13.4 billion budget for the 2020-21 fiscal year on Monday, though legislators did not take a vote. Department Secretary ...

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