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| Governor, lawmakers agree on how to deal with crowded prisons |
| By bakersfieldnow.com - Don Thompson |
| Published: 09/11/2013 |
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown and the four leaders of California's Legislature reached a compromise Monday on reducing the state's prison population, offering to spend more money on rehabilitation efforts if a panel of federal judges will extend an end-of-the-year deadline to release thousands of inmates. The deal relies on the state persuading three federal judges to give California time to let rehabilitation programs work rather than spend $315 million to lease cells in private prisons and county jails. The leaders agreed that if the judges don't extend the deadline, the state will fall back on Brown's plan to lease the cells. "There's insurance here against early release" of prisoners, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said at a news conference outside the governor's office, where he was joined by the governor and Democratic and Republican leaders of each chamber. Read More. |
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