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| Lawyers head to court in prison cap case |
| By Sacramento Bee |
| Published: 12/06/2007 |
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CALIFORNIA - Inmates rights' lawyers who want to cap the population of the state's overcrowded prisons are going to court this afternoon in hopes of forcing the Schwarzenegger administration to turn over some 50,000 pages of documents in the case. The lawyers accuse the administration of inappropriately claiming executive privilege in withholding the documents, some of which detail the state's progress under this year's $7.9 billion prison construction law, which administration officials have cited as their leading defense against a population cap. According to the attorneys, the documents are "directly relevant" to whether a federal three-judge panel should impose such a cap, which could mean early releases for tens of thousands of prison inmates. They said the state has "abused the discovery process at every turn" leading up to the trial, scheduled for Feb. 6. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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