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CA: Free 40,000 California prisoners? Not so fast. A federal judicial panel orders the state to come up with a plan to cut prison populations. But any such plan would be carried out over two years ? and any actual release order challenged.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Free 40,000 California inmates? Not so fast. A federal judicial panel orders the state to come up with a plan to cut prison populations. But any such plan would be carried out over two years ? and any actual release order challenged. By Michael B. Farrell | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor August 8, 2009 edition San Francisco - Is California about to open its prison gates, freeing more than 40,000 inmates? Earlier this week, a federal judicial panel gave the state 45 days to come up with a plan to cut its prison population in order to adequately care for its inmates. But don't expect inmates to be freed from any of California's 33 adult prisons next month. Even if prison officials come up with a plan that both lawmakers and the federal court justices accept, the state would have two years to carry out any reduction...continue to full post

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