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Prison population falls but spending still up in Newsom budget

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by SETH SANDROSKY posted 01.23.2023

California prison spending for 2023-24 in the proposed $297 billion state budget is up to $14.5 billion – even as the prisoner population drops.

Mike Curb, who served as lieutenant governor decades ago during Jerry Brown’s second term in office and then largely disappeared from politics, has popped up again – as a supporter of gubernatorial hopeful Abel Maldonado.

The Nashville-based Curb, a