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California operates 33 state prisons, housing a combined 171,000 adult inmates at a cost to taxpayers of about $10 billion a year.
Spending on the prison system has increased $4.3 billion since 2002-03, making it one of the fastest growing parts of the state government.
And, despite the state's budget mess, the cost of running prisons may soon increase considerably more: A federal judge has
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