William Patrick, head of the federal prison building program, said California’s “high-priced construction management” is one reason the state prisons are pricey. “We could not afford the level of management that the state of California has, both in-house and outside,” he said. * Prison...
We’d be able to pay our prison guards what they would make in other states, which would allow us to build more prisons and arrest more bad guys to fill those prisons. We might even have enough left over to hire some more prison guards. As a result, the state and municipalities might...