The Nation, October 11, 2011 by Sasha Abramsky
http://www.thenation.com/article/163894/questions-san-francisco-da-candidate-david-onek
In California, we’ve embarked on the biggest prison-building binge in history, and we’re paying the price for it. We have what can only be described as an absolute fiscal crisis. The number-one driver of that crisis is the cost of prisons.