Federal judges on Thursday ordered California Gov. Brown to directly begin releasing inmates from the state’s over-crowded prisons.
Governor Brown reacted swiftly and decisively saying: “The state will seek an immediate stay of this unprecedented order to release almost 10,000 inmates by the end of this year.”
The order was signed by U.S. District Judges Stephen Reinhardt, Lawrence Karlton and Thelton Henderson, the court ordered Brown to ‘expand good-time credits’
The judges demanded that the state commence immediately regardless of any laws that might prevent those releases.