In June 2024, the average daily jail population statewide was 56,795 people. Michele Deitch, director of the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, said it’s likely, if not a certainty, that more people will d...
California's prison population grew from 25,000 in 1980 to over 170,000 in 2007.[335] Capital punishment is a legal form of punishment and the state has the largest "Death Row" population in the country (though Oklahoma and Texas are far more active in carrying out executions).[336][...
DON THOMPSON
The state prison population has dropped to the lowest number in 30 years as people are released due to the coronavirus, officials from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Thursday.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A decade after prison crowding forced California to realign its criminal justice system, the population in what once was the nation's largest state correctional system has shrunk to the point where officials announced Tuesday t
Some people would be required to serve their sentences in state prison, rather than county prison, thus increasing the state prison population. It would also increase state costs due to an increase in the workload at the state level. The LAO says felonies take more time to resolve ...
California Reluctant To Further Reduce Its Prison PopulationRichard Gonzales
WASHINGTON —California outpaced all other states in prison population growth in the 1980s, with the number of inmates jumping 263%, according to Justice Department statistics released Sunday. The sharp increase reflected a nationwide trend. But the growth rate of California’s inmate population more...
The goal of Proposition 47 was to cut the prison population and increase treatments for convicts. Harris was involved in giving the proposition a nice-sounding title, “The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act.” In changing the penalties for small crimes, there has been a surge in petty crime,...
California's legal system is explicitly based upon English common law[343] but carries many features from Spanish civil law, such as community property. California's prison population grew from 25,000 in 1980 to over 170,000 in 2007.[344] Capital punishment is a legal form of punishment and...