Opinion: David Crane: Sacramento must prioritize education over more prison guard raises
Meanwhile, the very same Legislature and governor that approved that $10.9 billion in spending on correctional employees appropriated less than half as much, $5.3 billion, to the California State University system that employs 54,000 faculty members and serves 460,000 students.
This enormous discrepancy should infuriate conservative and progressive voters alike. The state is both overspending on staffing and salaries for correctional employees and giving short shrift to young Californians working to advance themselves at our CSUs. To add insult to injury, a recentfound that over $600 million of CDCR spending on rehabilitation programs was poorly managed and couldn’t demonstrate significant outcomes for those that participated.
How did we get here? It’s simple: politics. Governors from Jerry Brown and George Deukmajian to Pete Wilson and Gray Davis sought and gained the financial and political backing of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association , topped off by particularly large concessions by Davis when he faced a recall election in 2003. Fast forward to 2021, when another recall election was underway and the Legislature and Gov.
California’s correctional officers do important and difficult work for which they should be appreciated, but that does not mean their jobs should be excessively compensated, especially when the consequences of that excessive spending fall disproportionately on discretionarily funded programs such as social services, CSU, UC, courts and parks. Fortunately, California is at an important crossroads that makes a pay revisit possible.
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