Litigation
Nov. 5, 2013
In decadeslong prison litigation, Brown's defiant stance raises eyebrows
The state's aggressive but so far unsuccessful efforts to fight an order requiring corrections officials to reduce the population rate in state prisons has left some legal experts puzzled.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Ten months ago, Gov. Jerry Brown defiantly proclaimed from the Capitol, "We can run our own prisons, and by God, let those judges give us our prisons back."
Those words, which came nearly four years after a federal three-judge panel ordered the state to reduce overcrowding in prisons, presaged the state's resistance to federal involvement in its correctional facilities. Officials had fi...
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