SACRAMENTO — State lawmakers are scheduled today to consider a controversial prisons bill package that includes the creation of a parolee re-entry court system and a sentencing commission.
Legislators and their staff were still combing through the bill’s contents late Wednesday, as Democratic leaders did not release the final language to the public until 5 p.m. But the legislation, Assembly Bill 14XXX, appears to largely mirror prison population-reducing plans proposed previously by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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