State workers' suit finds fault in sending inmates to other states
Source: By Don Thompson, ASSOCIATED PRESS (CA), Tue, Oct. 31, 2006
Two state employee unions sued Monday to block Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to ship more than 2,000 inmates to other states to ease crowding in the nation's largest state prison system. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation signed contracts this month to use private prisons in four states to house 2,260 medium-security inmates at a cost estimated at $51 million a year.