CURB denounces state budget

Check out CURB’s op-ed in the Sac Bee on the toxic relationship between the recent 2010-2011 state budget and California’s irresponsible prison expansion.The author is Jim Lindburg, CURB member and Legislative Director for Friends Committee on Legislation of California.

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