 Seattle Post Intelligencer | The Conversation: Immigration & America Sacramento Bee, USA The state spends almost $1 billion annually keeping an estimated 19000 illegal immigrant felons behind bars until the end of their prison terms. But it is difficult to imagine how this cost could be avoided. Handing these convicts over to the federal ... Calif. looks to immigrant inmates to save costs Afflicting the comfortable Schwarzenegger Proposes Early Release of Undocumented Inmates to ... |