California Loses Bid to Cancel Prison Inmate Reductions
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California was ordered to reduce its prison population to 137 percent of capacity by the end of the year by federal judges who denied Governor Jerry Brown’s request to cancel court-mandated cuts because of improvements to inmate-care programs.
The evidence “fails to demonstrate a significant or unanticipated change in circumstances” and the state hasn’t come up with a sustainable remedy to fix the quality of the prison system, given that 9,500 more prisoners will be housed when California eliminates an out-of-state prisoner program, the three-judge panel said in a ruling yesterday.