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| CA will miss prisoner reduction deadline |
| By centralvalleybusinesstimes.com |
| Published: 08/08/2011 |
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Current state plans to reduce prison overcrowding to conform with a federal court order will fall short in meeting deadlines, according to a report from the nonpartisan Legislative Analysts Office. A U.S. Supreme Court ruling in May requires the state to reduce overcrowding in its prisons to 137.5 percent of its “design capacity” within two years. That would mean moving about 34,000 felons out of state prisons in some fashion. But a prison realignment plan that the Legislature recently enacted is unlikely by itself to reduce overcrowding sufficiently within the two-year deadline set by the court. “This indicates to us that, as the U.S. Supreme Court suggested, a somewhat longer timeframe is warranted,” says Mac Taylor, legislative analyst. “In addition, we recommend that the Legislature consider how the overcrowding reduction will affect the types of prison facilities California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has planned to build. Finally, we recommend that the Legislature provide CDCR with more flexibility to use contract beds in order to manage overcrowding, particularly in the near term.” Read More. |
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