Crowding Triggers Early Jail Releases

Summary


Thousands of criminals statewide each year are released back onto the streets early - or never jailed at all.

California's prisons are bursting at the seams, straining to keep more than 174,000 inmates locked up in prisons designed to hold 170,000.

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Crowding Triggers Early Jail Releases

The result?

Officers and inmates exist in a dangerous atmosphere, with 17,000 criminals being housed in gymnasiums and classrooms rather than in jail cells.

County inmates are being released early to ma...

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