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SACRAMENTO A panel of federal judges Thursday threatened to hold Gov. Jerry Brown and other state officials in contempt of court if they do not quickly produce a plan to remove thousands of convicts from California's packed prisons.
In a blistering 71-page ruling, the jurists rejected Brown's bid to end restrictions they imposed on crowding in the lockups. The state cannot maintain inmate numbers that violate orders intended to eliminate dangerous conditions behind bars, they said.
Brown and other officials "will not be allowed to continue to violate the requirements of the Constitution of the United States," the judges wrote.
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On Thursday, all three jurists stood behind the population caps they previously ordered and the U.S. Supreme Court upheld as a remedy for what they have called substandard conditions due to overcrowding, resulting in unconstitutionally poor inmate care.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-prisons-20130412,0,6359134.story
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)what a topsy turvy world when people are against the legendary Jerry Brown
who almost made history in 1992 with Jesse Jackson, til racism reared its ugly head
cali
(114,904 posts)and he is not the most liberal governor of any state of all time and this has jackshit to do with liking him.
Fucking ridiculous.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)Thank god for the courts, they are the last resort for this country as we have seen so many times over the past several years.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)Try thinking for yourself, outside of the box, it's a big world outside partisanship, with lots of possibilities for improvement.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)I remember when Mike Dukakis let Willie Horton go.
Then was blamed for it.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)indepat
(20,899 posts)graham4anything
(11,464 posts)I was just talking about her this morning to someone when we were talking about Jonathan Winters dying and the connection with Bob Newhart.
indepat
(20,899 posts)markpkessinger
(8,381 posts). . . and this is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. When they do get it horribly wrong -- be it Brown on prison overcrowding or the President on chained CPI -- it is only right that they be called out on it. I truly cannot understand the mindset that thinks that because a politician has gotten it right on some issues , he or she is owed blind loyalty even when he or she gets it wrong.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)He personally may want one thing, whereas the job requires him to attempt to do the other
Laws are laws rules are rules
(that is the problem some always forget, especially in NYC)
But who is released and who isn't?
And what if the wrong people are released?
Go Vols
(5,902 posts)Calif. needs some more for profit prisons.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)in progress.
I thought this was done long ago, but apparently it was not.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)But no luck until they finish cleaning up the prison mess.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)How on earth can we go around the world telling people how to run democracies when we are running virtual gulags here, and many of them for profit?
I am glad they cannot get out from under it. They should not. Maybe if they spend a few days in one of those prisons they will change their tune a little.
cali
(114,904 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)fredamae
(4,458 posts)if the Prison Industrial Complex isn't squeezing him from the other side?
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)fredamae
(4,458 posts)Are they even more powerful politically than the NRA?
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)lots of non-violent offenders. Priority to those that behaved well when locked up.