Opponents of Prop. 5, the drug offender law reform ballot measure, received a sizeable injection of money this week when the powerful California prison guard's union donated $1 million toward efforts to defeat the initiative.

Records filed with the Secretary of State's office show the 30,000-member strong California Correctional Peace Officers Association made the donation on Wednesday.

CCPOA officials made news in recent days by announcing they would abandon a high profile effort to recall Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger after the group's petition paperwork filed with the Secretary of State's office was rejected for not carrying Schwarzenegger's anti-recall argument.