Government
Aug. 8, 2011
Plan won't eliminate prison overcrowding
Gov. Jerry Brown's realignment proposal will go a long way to reducing the state's prison overcrowding problem but won't satisfy a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the legislative analyst's office said Friday.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to move low-level offenders from state prisons to county jails will go a long way toward reducing the state's prison overcrowding but won't satisfy a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, according to a report released Friday.
The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office, which provides fiscal and policy analysis to the state Legislature, concluded that the st...
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