BUDGET HEARINGS NEXT WEEK ACROSS THE STATE Stop the Prison Boom

Gov Gray Davis and many key legislators have received large campaign contributions and a recent trip to Hawaii from the CCPOA- Prison guards union, and have demonstrated that they are willing to fulfill their every wish and will not make cuts - they were awarded a recent pay raise of 37%, bringing average salaries before overtime to the $75,000/yr range, the same as a tenured professor. With overtime, due to the union's deliberate blocking of filling positions, many earn over $100,000.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/12/06/MN203712.DTL
http://www.cjcj.org/cpp/growth_CCPOA.php
Cancel the Delano Prison!


TUESDAY DECEMBER 17 at 1:00pm
LOS ANGELES
Ronald Reagan State Building
Dept of Insurance Hearing Room
300 Spring St.
Health and Human Services Budget Subcommittee

TUEDAY DECEMBER 17 at 1pm
SACRAMENTO
State Capitol
Room 447
Corrections Budget Subcommittee

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 18 at 3:30pm
OAKLAND
Alameda County Board of Supervisors Chambers
Administration Building, Room 512
1221 Oak St.
Information Technology and Transportation Budget Subcommittee

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 18 at 1pm
SAN JOSE
Santa Clara County Board of Supervisor Chambers
70 West Hedding, 1st Floor
Education and Technology Budget Subcommittees

California faces a historically unprecedented budget crisis. Of the $10 billion in mid-year cuts
Governor Davis has proposed, a miniscule .1% of the cuts come from Corrections' $4.8 billion budget.

We propose three courageous, common sense cuts to Corrections to save the state more than $1 billion per
year, every year:

1) Cancel the proposed Delano II prison.

2) Adopt the options outlined by the Legislative Analyst's Office, which will free over 20,000 prison
beds.

3) Reduce the extraordinarily high number of parolees returned to prison on technicalities.

For a pamphlet detailing these options, Contact Critical Resistance.

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Critical Resistance
1904 Franklin St., Ste. 504
Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: 510.444.0484
Fax: 510.444.2177