Walters: Prison population is down, but costs still are going up

When Jerry Brown’s first governorship began in 1975, California had about 20,000 men and women behind bars in its prison system, but that number would increase more than eightfold.|
DAN WALTERS
DAN WALTERS IS A COLUMNIST FOR CALMATTERS, A PUBLIC INTEREST JOURNALISM VENTURE.

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