It's "not at all clear" that Monday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling ordering California to reduce its prison population by about 33,000 "means an opening of the prison gates" anytime soon, NPR's Richard Gonzales reported today on Morning Edition.
Indeed, as the Los Angeles Times writes, officials in the administration of Gov. Jerry Brown (D) "expressed confidence that their plan to shift low-level offenders to county jails and other facilities, already approved by lawmakers, would ease the persistent crowding that the high court said Monday had caused 'needless suffering and death' and amounted to cruel and unusual punishment."
And the Sacramento Bee adds that:
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