California made headlines last week when Governor Jerry Brown allocated a record $11.4 billion to the state’s corrections department in his May Revision to the budget, translating to $75,560 per individual — the highest per-inmate cost in the nation. Media outlets ran amok with headlines comparing the costs of imprisonment to tuition at the
California Maybe Replacing Its ‘Prison-Industrial Complex’ With Something Far Worse
The main players in California’s “treatment-industrial complex” are the very same ones involved in the for-profit prison industry.
By Sarah Cronin
