The second-biggest-spending interest group in the state, Common Cause said, is the state prison guard union, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association.
So far as people in the Oaks were concerned, all Huntsville had going for it was the state prison and its death chamber.
In this rural town, where the biggest employer is the state prison system, three guards are on trial, accused of stomping a convicted killer to death in his cell to keep him from exposing brutality behind bars.
"It's reducing the state prison population, it's giving people second chances and it's saving state money that has never been saved before".
Rob Kenny, a spokesman for the State Health Department, said he had not received the report, but added, "We are confident the state prison system is providing quality health care to inmates".
Mr. Junta, a 270-pound truck driver who outweighed Mr. Costin by more than 100 pounds, will be sent to the state prison in Walpole.
Perhaps the most contentious topic was the state's prison system, with the governor drawing criticism for her handling of a case in which a prison counselor was abducted and raped.
Cynthia and Ulises were transferred to the state prison, just outside Chihuahua City, where their arrest was announced to the media.
It was this way for nearly two years, until Czifra was transferred to the state prison in Sacramento, and eventually paroled.
Now he's down in the state prison in Winslow.
