Despite new policies, innumerable studies, and the concerns of over-taxed Californians, state judges continue to send low-level felons into the state prisons instead of county facilities. Everyone loses!
"A panel of three federal judges presiding over inmate lawsuits against California has given the state until Jan. 7 to produce a new prison reduction plan. California must reduce crowding to 137.5% of what its 33 prisons were designed to hold. The cap translates into 112,032 inmates in prisons built to hold 81,000.
The population caps were ordered after California failed for years to improve what judges ruled were unconstitutionally cruel conditions in its aging prisons, with medical care so bad that an inmate a week died needlessly."
As usual, everyone is pointing fingers at everyone else. See the whole story from the L.A. Times:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2012/10/even-after-realignment-prison-count-expected-to-rise.html
"A panel of three federal judges presiding over inmate lawsuits against California has given the state until Jan. 7 to produce a new prison reduction plan. California must reduce crowding to 137.5% of what its 33 prisons were designed to hold. The cap translates into 112,032 inmates in prisons built to hold 81,000.
The population caps were ordered after California failed for years to improve what judges ruled were unconstitutionally cruel conditions in its aging prisons, with medical care so bad that an inmate a week died needlessly."
As usual, everyone is pointing fingers at everyone else. See the whole story from the L.A. Times:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2012/10/even-after-realignment-prison-count-expected-to-rise.html
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