Criminal,
California Supreme Court
Jul. 17, 2020
Limits on time, money impact virus mitigation, prisons say
U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar said he’s relieved the issue was a shortage of time rather than another complication with COVID-19’s spread through the state prison system.
SAN FRANCISCO -- The state prisons department failed to follow through on a program to move medically vulnerable inmates from overcrowded dorms to less congested cells, an agency attorney told a federal judge Thursday.
Paul Mello, an attorney for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said implementation of the pilot program was halted because the person spearheading it was too busy working on another project d...
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