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CA: Judges OK Schwarzenegger plan to reduce prison crowding

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Judges OK Schwarzenegger plan to reduce prison crowding The proposal includes some home detention with satellite tracking devices, permitting some felons to serve time in county jails instead of state prisons and reducing sentences for property crimes. By Michael Rothfeld January 13, 2010 Reporting from Sacramento A panel of three federal judges Tuesday approved a court-ordered plan submitted by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to reduce overcrowding in California prisons by 40,000 inmates within two years. The judges ruled against the state in August in two lawsuits by inmates who argued that overcrowding was the main cause of inadequate medical and mental health care in the prisons. Schwarzenegger has appealed that ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, but he was ordered in the meantime to come up with a plan to fix the problems...continue to full post

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