San Jose Mercury News, January 13, 2011 by Karen de Sá
http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county/ci_17091138?nclick_check=1
“The cost of sending people to state prison for a week or a month is huge,” said Jeanne Woodford, former warden of San Quentin State Prison and now a senior fellow at UC Berkeley. At state reception centers, she noted, many of the same medical tests, psychological screening and caseworker reports done in the county jails are repeated.