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CA: State budget deal reduces prison inmates by 27,000

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

State budget deal reduces prison inmates by 27,000 The plan accomplishes this with a combination of measures, including having some prisoners complete sentences at home and shortening terms for those who finish rehabilitation programs. By Michael Rothfeld LA Times July 21, 2009 Reporting from Sacramento - The state budget deal negotiated by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders would reduce the population of California prisons by nearly 27,000 inmates in the current fiscal year. That would be done with a combination of new measures, including allowing some inmates to finish their sentences on home detention, creating new incentives for completion of rehabilitation programs and scaling back parole supervision for the least serious offenders...continue to full post

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