The state’s opposition to the California Supreme Court’s mandate in Brown v. Plata to reduce inmate population has recently taken a surprising turn. In public appearances, Governor Jerry Brown has been pointing an accusatory finger at the inmates’ attorneys, and primarily at the nonprofit Prison Law Office and at Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld, which worked respectively on the medical and mental health care aspects of the Plata litigation. According to Brown, these lawyers and experts, to whom he refers as "the prison lobby," are racking up profits and prolonging the litigation for their own benefit.
How much money are we talking about? The Washington Post offers the breakdown. The Prison Law Office is reported to have received $8.3 million in attorney fees; Rosen Bien has received $19 million. But while it might be convenient for Brown to focus on these expenses, there were other lofty expenditures on this case, including the salaries for Brown’s own attorneys and for the people appointed by the court to mix his mess of a correctional health care system, which he conveniently ignores.
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