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California AG Jerry Brown assails federal panel ruling demanding prisoner release

By Douglas A. Berman

The Los Angeles Times has this new report on the reaction of California's tough-on-crime(?) attorney general to the ruling yesterday (discussed here) by a panel of federal judges that the California prison system must reduce its inmate population drastically within two years.   Here are excerpts: Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown has denounced a court order to release more than one out of every four state prisoners in California as counterproductive interference by judicial activists, and said state officials were still deliberating Wednesday whether to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.While acknowledging that Tuesday's ruling by a three-judge federal panel aims to resolve the same problems with severe prison overcrowding that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants, Brown said the court's latest edict on how to improve the corrections system has only contributed to the "Kafka-esque nightmare" confronting the cash-strapped state...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 05, 2009 (boomark / email).