The Bay Citizen, August 30, 2011 by Jennifer Gollan and Sydney Lupkin
http://www.baycitizen.org/education/interactive/education-vs-prisons-shifting-priorities/
“The growth in spending for pay and benefits for prison guards, prison health care mandated by various lawsuits, and the extraordinary amounts of money we are paying prison doctors” all contribute, he said. “California is clearly the worst in the U.S. for what we get and what we spend. California has the largest prison system in the U.S., it is the most expensive per capita rate in the U.S. and the state has some of the highest recidivism rates of any state in the nation.”