September 29, 2008
Calif. AG wants disclosure of prison plan
California Attorney General Jerry Brown filed a motion in federal court on Friday, demanding public disclosure of Federal Receiver J. Clark Kelso's $8 billion construction plan.
The move is the latest in a simmering legal and political battle between the state's prison officials, their powerful lobby and the state's top political leaders. "If public money is being spent," Brown said, "the public has the right to know how it's going to be spent."
Kelso's plan for prison facility construction is a 917-page document containing information on the layout, design and amenities of the seven prison health care facilities…
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