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"Judges issue order to cut California prison population"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this article from the Sacramento Bee.  The piece provides the latest news about the latest chapter of the federal litigation over the prison population in California: The long-awaited final order to reduce California's prison population was issued Tuesday by three federal judges who signed off on a revised plan submitted in November by the Schwarzenegger administration. But the judges postponed the effective date of their order pending U.S. Supreme Court consideration of it and another order in August requiring formulation of the plan. The administration is waiting for the high court to act on its request for a review of the August order. The three judges are a special panel appointed by the chief judge of the 9th U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 13, 2010 (boomark / email).