Government
Aug. 23, 2007
Republican Lawmakers Take on Prison Panel
Steven Kaufhold, a civil litigator with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, is representing Assembly Republicans in their effort to intervene in the three-judge panel tapped to reform California’s crowded prison system. The Republicans want to block any plans to release inmates early or cap the prison population.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - Republican lawmakers have successfully sued to intervene in the deliberations of a three-judge panel charged with finding a solution to California's overcrowded prison system.
In papers filed last week, 31 Assembly Republicans argued the judges should drop any notion of releasing prisoners early or capping their numbers as a way...
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