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Gavard Gavin Newo today called for the end of another prison in his new budgetWhich would be the fifth facility closed under his watch, although he did not specify which institution was already aimed at his back.

The closure offered by Newsom will take place by October 2026 will happen despite the application of Proposal 36A new law of California, which is expected to briefly increase the number of people in the prison system.

“Although a proposal is expected to increase (prison) the population, the population must continue their trend of a long -term reduction,” Newsom says in the proposal.

Newsom budget proposed It promises that prison closure will save about $ 150 million a year. He called for a stop as part of his plan to close a deficit of $ 12 billion.

The legislative analyzer service estimates that the California prisons population – which, despite the additional Prop 36 prisoners, is still estimated to start dropping out again in 2027 – may allow Newsom to close as many as Five more prisonssaving $ 1 billion a year.

Instead, in last year’s budget cycle and in the new budget proposal, Newsom has taken a more precautionary approach to trimming prison beds. Last year, he offered to end 46 residential blocks in 13 state prison, but refused to call for full closure of prison.

Prison closure advocates welcomed Newsom’s message.

“I am relieved that the governor Newsom has taken a step in the right direction by announcing an additional prison will close in 2026,” said Amber-Rose Howard, Central CEO, joined for a responsible budget, a coalition that advocates for reduced imprisonment. “In the midst of an extremely difficult political moment, where Californians undergo abbreviations of the budget of life -affirming programs, closing prisons is an intelligent solution to compensate for some of these abbreviations.”

At the peak of the prisoners in 2006, California locked 165,000 people in state prisons. Today, after a decade of change in sentence, federal court intervention, and jumping on Issued tied to Covid-19California prisons are about 91,000 people.

The Newsom administration expects to spend about $ 13.6 billion on the prison system next year.

Newsom has already moved to four prisons during its administration. He designs that these exceptions will save the state $ 3.4 billion by 2027.

So far, Newsom closed the Deuel professional institution in Tracy in 2021 and the California Correctional Center in Susuzville in 2023. It completed a lease with a private prison called the California City Correctional Facility, and the amendment department removed the last prisoners from the Arizona State Prison near the Arizona.

Some of these communities stepped backIn particular in Blythe, where the city hired a PR company and tried to lobby for the survival of the Chuckwalla facility. So far, the governor’s office has not shown any signs of a conversion course.

The California Department of correction and rehabilitation spokesman Terry Hardy said in a statement that the department would make its choice of facility based on its own instructions.

These instructions, Written in the California Code of CodeThey dictate that prison closure criteria include the age and condition of the facility, its geographical proximity to other prisons, the economic impact on the local community and the programming available for deprived people in the facility.

The correction department is “committed to effectively managing its resources to best serve California people,” Hardy said. “The state will support the affected local community and labor with a plan for economic sustainability, and workers will be offered the transfer of facilities nearby.”

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