August 14, 2009
Competing plans vie to fix prisons
With a $1.2 billion budget hole and a recent federal court order to address overcrowding, the pressure is growing to thin California's bulging prisons.
Now comes the trick: figuring out how can it be done without jeopardizing public safety.
California's 33 prisons house more than 150,000 inmates, almost double the amount they were designed to hold.
Last week, a federal court ordered California to empty its prisons by more than 40,000 inmates within two years. The state says it will appeal…
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