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California unlikely to to meet prison population reduction requirement

By Riley Guerin | Aug. 18, 2012
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Law Office Management

Aug. 18, 2012

California unlikely to to meet prison population reduction requirement

It appears that the state is unlikely to meet its June 2013 deadline for the court-ordered reduction in California’s prison population.

It appears that the state is unlikely to meet its June 2013 deadline for the court-ordered reduction in California's prison population. Though the state made major headway since October when it began sending nonviolent felons to county jails instead of state prisons, that progress has since slowed down. As nonviolent offenders leave the state system, prison officials say, finding ways to decrease the inmate count has become increasingly hard.

Originally, the U.S. Supreme Court mandated that California's prisons not be overcrowded by more than 137.5 percent, but state officials say they will ask for a new cap of 145 percent. According to the Los Angeles Times, the prisons have until August 17 to come up with a schedule for identifying prisoners "'unlikely to reoffend or who might otherwise be candidates for early release' and to detail other ways to hasten the emptying of double-bunked cells."
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Riley Guerin

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