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| State prisons ordered to restart parole programs |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 06/13/2005 |
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Judges in Sacramento and San Diego have ordered California state prison officials to reinstate parole programs and increase pay for inmate laborers. In Sacramento, U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton ruled that corrections officials violated a court-approved 2003 settlement that required reform of the state's parole system. He said they abruptly stopped using three programs as alternatives to sending parole violators back to prison. Karlton said last month he would order the programs reinstated. He entered his formal order last Thursday. And Thursday, San Diego County Superior Court Judge William Pate threatened to hold corrections officials in contempt unless they comply with his orders on running a prison labor program. His ruling includes an order that they pay inmate workers more money. |
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