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| Prisons plan likely doomed |
| By fresnobee.com - Denny Walsh & Torey Van Oot |
| Published: 05/06/2013 |
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A plan for inmate population reduction in California's prisons that was submitted Thursday by Gov. Jerry Brown and his corrections department to three federal judges may be dead on arrival. Nearly the whole plan depends on the Legislature's approval, and a number of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle said Friday they see serious flaws in it. Even if the required appropriations and changes in the law were made, it would take some months to get the measures up and running. In the document containing the plan, it is made clear that Brown is not going to spend any of his political capital getting the Legislature to act. The plan was submitted to the accompaniment of loud protest by Brown and Corrections Department Secretary Jeff Beard, and only because the three judges threatened them with severe discipline if they refused. Read More. |
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