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California Gets More Time On Prison Overcrowding

California Department of Corrections

California's deadline to cut its prison population has been extended until April 18th.

A panel of federal judges previously had moved the deadline to February while a court-appointed mediator works to find a long-term solution with Governor Jerry Brown's administration and attorneys representing inmates.

The judges ordered that those talk continue until January 10th. But the one-paragraph order released yesterday warns that they plan no further extension in the negotiations, "absent extraordinary circumstances."

The state now faces a spring deadline to reduce the prison population to about 110,o0o inmates.

The state is pushing for a three-year delay in the court-ordered deadline to give rehabilitation programs time to work as an alternative to housing thousands of inmates in private prisons and county jails.

Recent threats to federal funding are challenging the way stations like JPR provide service to small communities in rural parts of the country.
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