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Documenting the influence of the prison guards union on criminal justice policy in CA.

In a time of fiscal crisis and increasingly limited discretionary spending, such vast increases in prison spending will necessarily threaten both the quality and availability of higher education in California. 

San Francisco’s fiscal decisions in the 1990’s made trade offs between needed social services and jail construction.