Prison employees unions sue

Daily Breeze | October 31, 2006| | Copyright

SACRAMENTO -- Two state employee unions sued Monday to block Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to ship more than 2,000 inmates to other states to ease crowding in the nation's largest state prison system.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation signed contracts this month to use private prisons in four states to house 2,260 medium-security inmates at a cost estimated at $51 million a year.

The California Correctional Peace Officers Association, representing prison guards, and Service Employees International Union Local 1000, representing other prison employees, say sending ...

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