So they lobby to increase prison terms and to "enforce current drug laws". I suppose they should have the right to do that, but it still seems a bit odd to me!
So they might be able to have quite some impact by lobbying and voting as a block, but they are not a big enough body to swing votes against a meaningful majority.
(your link states that union has ~31,000 members, California had about 17.5 million registered voters in the Nov 2014 election)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Correctional_Peace_O...
So they lobby to increase prison terms and to "enforce current drug laws". I suppose they should have the right to do that, but it still seems a bit odd to me!