Buried in the recently passed California state budget bill is a provision to close a state prison in the small northern city of Susanville by exempting state correctional facilities from environmental reviews.
Assembly Bill (AB) 200 designates state public safety spending for the 2022–2023 fiscal year and sets a closure date of June 30, 2023, exactly one year after the budget signature, for the California Correctional Center (CCC).
The legislative move follows a lawsuit the City of Susanville filed in July 2021 to stop the prison closure.
“What happens at the tail end of the budget process is a bunch of policy getting put in place by the legislature and the governor that may have very little to do with the budget specifically,” Lanhee Chen, a Stanford University professor and candidate for State Controller, told The Epoch Times on July 8….
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