| October 22, 2009
Court, governor dig in heels on prison crowding
Bob Egelko, SF Chronicle Staff Writer
A federal court panel responded sternly Wednesday to the state's defiance of its order to reduce overcrowding in California's prisons within two years, telling Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to submit a plan within 21 days that meets the panel's goal of lowering the inmate population by 40,000 or face a court-imposed plan. |
