The L.A. Times reports:
The battle over an initiative that would divert drug offenders from prison into treatment and loosen state parole policies has intensified heading into Tuesday's vote, with a bipartisan coalition of elected officials joining the state prison guards union to fight the measure.
Supporters of Proposition 5, whose heavy fundraising advantage has been whittled down, have cast opponents as shills for the California Correctional Peace Officers Assn. and its efforts to keep the state prison system overcrowded. The union has spent $1.8 million to fight the initiative.
"Tell the prison guards the party's over," the supporters say in a television ad unveiled this week that says correctional officers are "taking overtime pay right out of your pocket."
The prison guards in California are protecting their business and putting your taxpayer dollars to work.Here's a
post we did in 2006 on California prison guards:
More than 3,600 prison guards earned more than $100,000 last year
Imagine that.
