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Government

Apr. 13, 2013

Panel denies state bid to lift prison inmate cap

A three-judge panel on Thursday denied the state's motion to vacate a 2009 court order that prisons be brought to 137.5 percent of so-called design capacity.

By Hamed Aleaziz
Daily Journal Staff Writer

A federal three-judge panel on Thursday denied the state's motion to vacate a 2009 court order that prisons be brought to 137.5 percent of so-called design capacity.

The state filed a the motion in January, arguing that improvements in the medical and mental health care systems made the order "unnecessary." Plata v. Brown, CV01-1351 (N.D. Cal., filed April 5, 2001).

The current prison population hovers just under 15...

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