Claim(permalink)
California’s prisons budget in 1970 "was about 3 percent of the general fund. Now, it’s 8.9 percent, about $12 billion."
✓politifact rating: credible; published on 2018-01-26
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credible
Political Leaning
left political leaning
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neutral sentiment
Date published
2018-01-26
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MarsThe CorrectionsIncarceration in the United StatesNielsen ratingsFact-checkingPolitiFactGovernor of CaliforniaJerry BrownDemocracyFake newsRonald ReaganUnited States CapitolCourtSupreme Court of the United StatesCaliforniaFranklin ZimringMetastasis