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| Brown seeks 3-year delay on easing prison crowding |
| By latimes.com - Paige St. John |
| Published: 09/17/2013 |
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SACRAMENTO — Following through on a deal struck with legislative leaders, Gov. Jerry Brown told federal judges Monday that he is prepared to spends hundreds of millions of dollars moving inmates out of crowded prisons — but would rather use the money to rehabilitate prisoners so they don't come back. To do that, the state is asking for a three-year delay in meeting the inmate population caps the judges ordered in 2010. "For prison population reduction measures to be effective and lasting, they cannot be unilaterally imposed," the governor's lawyers said in a late-night filing, arguing that "state prisons are just one part of the larger, interconnected criminal justice system." Read More. |
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