California Ordered to Trim Prison Population - Sentencing - FindLaw Blotter
source: http://blogs.findlaw.com/blotter/2009/08/california-ordered-to-trim-prison-population.html
.......The cause of the extreme overpopulation? According to the court, three main factors:
Tough on crime legislation, such as mandatory minimum sentences and three-strikes laws;
A parole system that doesn't prepare inmates for return to society (and therefore sees half come back to prison); and
Lawmakers unwilling to provide the resources to remedy long known and dangerous prison conditions.
Now the state has another court order to fix its bursting prisons. The court said that it "will look with disfavor upon any effort to postpone or delay" finalization of a plan to fix the prisons.
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Tough on crime legislation, such as mandatory minimum sentences and three-strikes laws;
A parole system that doesn't prepare inmates for return to society (and therefore sees half come back to prison); and
Lawmakers unwilling to provide the resources to remedy long known and dangerous prison conditions.
Now the state has another court order to fix its bursting prisons. The court said that it "will look with disfavor upon any effort to postpone or delay" finalization of a plan to fix the prisons.
cLIQ fOR fUHL aRTIKAL.....
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