Government
Sep. 22, 2009
Cuts to Inmate Population Don't Meet Judges' Demands
The state of California submitted a plan to reduce its prison population Friday, but the numbers it proposed are nowhere near what a panel of federal judges had ordered.
Daily Journal Staff Writer The state of California submitted a plan to reduce its prison population Friday, but the numbers it proposed are nowhere near what a panel of federal judges had ordered. The court ordered the state to submit a plan that reduced the population by more than 40,000 inmates within two years. The state's plan calls for the population at the existing 33 prisons to decline by only 18,000 inmates in tha...
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