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Chino prison inmate population seeing a 40-percent decline
By dailybulletin.com - Beatriz Venezuela
Published: 12/27/2012

More than a year into the court-ordered realignment of the California prison system, the inmate population numbers have dipped to its lowest level in 17 years.

The numbers peaked in 2007, according to a recent study from the Center of Juvenile and Criminal Justice.

The California Institution for Men in Chino, which in December 2004 was at more than double its design capacity, is currently at 160 percent of capacity with 4,765 inmates held in a facility designed to hold 2,976, according to the most recent population reports from the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

While that may sound like a high number, it's a more than 40 percent drop in the daily inmate population and it's most evident in CIM's gymnasium. For many years, a total of 213 inmates going through the intake process could spend as many as 60 days living in the gymnasium, said Lt. Dirk Williams, spokesman for CIM.

"There would be double and triple-bunks lined up against the walls and rows and rows until you hit the other wall," Williams said as his voice echoed in the now empty space.

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