California unlikely to meet prison crowding reduction requirement, By Paige St. John, August 12, 2012, Los Angeles Times: “California’s progress in relieving its teeming prisons has slowed so much that it probably won’t comply with a court-ordered population reduction, and judges have raised the prospect of letting some inmates out early. Three federal jurists have given the state until Friday to come up with a schedule for identifying prisoners ‘unlikely to reoffend or who might otherwise be candidates for early release’ and to detail other ways to hasten the emptying of double-bunked cells. In the interim, the judges have ordered California to ‘take all steps necessary’ to meet their existing deadline for population cuts…”
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