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Budgets and litigation have shrunk California s prison population . but not enough Stateline.org has this fantastic new piece on the state of California s prison system under the headlined California shrinks its prisons, but overcrowding persists. Here are excerpts: As the financially battered state enacts huge budget cuts, it has no choice but to downsize its sprawling correctional system, which now consumes 10 percent of the state budget and swallows more taxpayer dollars than higher education a fact that, if public opinion surveys are accurate, Californians abhor.  A single prison bed costs taxpayers $44,500 a year. The federal courts have dialed up the pressure, putting state officials on notice that severe overcrowding a fact of life in California prisons for years is no longer acceptable.  Two years ago, a panel of three federal judges found that overcrowding had created unconstitutionally inhumane conditions, ordering the state to reduce its inmate population by

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