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| Prison officials seek delay of inmate deadline |
| By thecalifornian.com- Don Thompson |
| Published: 07/01/2014 |
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SACRAMENTO – California prison officials on Monday asked for a two-month delay in meeting their first court-ordered target for reducing the state's inmate population, after federal judges changed the rules at the last minute. Monday was the deadline for the state to reduce the population of its 34 adult prisons to an interim amount set by the court. The state missed the mark by 216 inmates. Prison officials had expected to meet the goal until last week. That's when a panel of three federal judges ruled that they could count only part of the capacity of the state's newest prison, a medical and mental health hospital in Stockton that is designed to hold 2,950 inmates. Read More. |
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