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| CA Counties Can't Save State Prisons |
| By californiawatch.org |
| Published: 01/04/2011 |
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Newly inaugurated Gov. Jerry Brown will propose shifting low-level offenders from state prisons to county jails as one of many budget cuts to shrink California’s $28 billion deficit, according to the Sacramento Bee. But this solution also poses a number of problems. First among them: Where are the counties supposed to house these inmates? The state’s prisons are massively overcrowded, and the U.S. Supreme Court is to rule in the coming months on whether to force the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to decrease its inmate population. An order from a lower federal court requires the state to move roughly 27,000 prisoners out of the state facilities to ease the space crunch and improve medical services. Should the top court uphold that order, California has few options on where to send its overflow inmates. Read More. |
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