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| CA to present action plan on to reduce Inmateovercrowding |
| By recordnet.com |
| Published: 06/06/2011 |
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STOCKTON - California prison officials have until today to provide federal courts with an action plan on how the state will reduce the population of its overcrowded prisons by 33,000. Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a panel of three federal judges, who previously ordered the state to shrink number of prisoners so that it can bring its medical and mental-health care up to constitutional standards. Part of the state's plans will include the future California Re-entry Facility, a prison south-east of Stockton. A Virginia-based architecture firm has released drawings of what the converted women's prison will look like. Once converted, the prison on Arch Road, east of Highway 99, will house 500 prisoners in their last year of incarceration. The prisoners will receive substance abuse and life-skills training before returning home. Then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in September 2007 visited the empty prison, which closed in 2003, to announce plans to use $7 billion from AB900 to open the re-entry facility - the first of its kind in the state. The conversion is estimated to cost $116 million, including the addition of a massive electric fence around the perimeter. It will be used to house inmates from San Joaquin, Calaveras and Amador counties. The Northern California Re-entry Facility also aims to draw down the 70 percent rate at which prisoners, once released, end up again committing crimes and returning to prison. It is unclear exactly when construction will begin on the Re-entry Facility and when it will open. Plans for the project wait approval in August. Prison officials broke ground nearby in November on the California Medical Facility, Stockton, a massive prison - to become the state's 34th - that will house 1,700 chronically ill inmates . Read More. |
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