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| Wardens await final word on possible releases |
| By Folsom Telegraph |
| Published: 02/13/2008 |
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CALIFORNIA - A pair of local wardens is awaiting news of how their operations could be affected if a proposed early release of state-prison inmates comes about. A target in a pair of lawsuits, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has been run by a federal court-appointed official called a receiver since 2006. Each suit charges unconstitutional shortcomings in prison medical care because of overcrowding. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's recent budget-cut proposal includes 10 percent taken from the corrections-rehabilitation department. Schawarzenegger has said such a cut would bring early release of 22,000 inmates and would tend to stop judges' "breathing down our neck" about overcrowding. "It's a difficult situation," said Warden Matthew Kramer of Folsom State Prison. "We're waiting to see what comes out of the state." Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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