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| Judges order California to come up with prison solution |
| By washingtonpost.com- Reid Wilson |
| Published: 01/17/2014 |
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After months of extensions that failed to resolve a dispute over conditions in state prisons, a panel of federal judges has given California officials just a week to come up with plans to reduce prison overcrowding. The judges gave Gov. Jerry Brown (D) and attorneys representing inmates until Jan. 23 to propose plans to comply with earlier court orders to limit prison population. The plans are scheduled to go into effect on April 18. Brown has asked the judges to delay population limits for three years; his budget proposal, released last week, assumes a delay of at least two years, though Brown was careful to point out that the state has the money to pay for private prison beds if that delay wasn’t granted. Read More. |
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