The State - News from June 2, 1985
California’s 12 prisons are housing 46,018 inmates--11% more than at this time last year--and are at 158% of capacity, Corrections Director Daniel McCarthy reported. He added that local law enforcement agencies also face crowded conditions, with county jails at 130% of capacity. “Consider these facts and you begin to grasp the challenge to public protection that we all face,” McCarthy said in the first of a series of weekly reports on the overcrowding problem.
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