california: There is a plan to reduce the California prison population what ever happend to that bill?|||Not a bill, a court order. In August, a panel of federal judges ordered California to come up with a plan to reduce prison population to a mere 137% of the capacity for which its prisons are designed, within two years. California prisons currently confine an estimated 150,000 inmates, which is 188% design capacity. With current facilities, this means a reduction of over 40,000 prisoners is required.|||It wasn't a bill, it was a court order. The court order is still pending. Inmates may be sent to other states or prisoners may be released early.|||The California deparment oof Corrections just submitted their revised plan to reduce the California prison population on November 12... Here is the San Fran Chronicle article http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/12/MNMV1AJNHV.DTL