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CA: Ruling favors governor on prison transfers

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Ruling favors governor on prison transfers Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer Thursday, June 5, 2008 (06-04) 17:54 PDT SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was within his rights to declare a state of emergency at California's overcrowded prisons in 2006 and begin transferring inmates out of state, an appeals court ruled Wednesday over the objections of the prison guards union. The ruling by the state Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento overturned a judge's decision and was welcomed by Schwarzenegger, who is separately defending the state against lawsuits by inmates seeking to reduce the overall prison population and improve the prisons' health care system. A federal judge has transferred control of prison health care in California to a court-appointed manager after ruling that the system violated constitutional standards...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 07, 2008 (boomark / email).