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California Sheriffs Appropriate Rehabilitation Funds for Security Needs
As California’s budget crisis deepens, local law enforcement agencies are looking for creative ways to cover shortfalls in their budgets. Increasingly, county sheriffs are raiding funds intended by the Legislature to be expended “primarily for the benefit, education and welfare of the inmates confined within the jail.” Referred to as ...
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- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
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