California prison remedy would send low-level offenders to county jails

California prison remedy would send low-level offenders to county jails...as a way to reduce overcrowding, as ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court, under an unfunded plan that would require legislative and voter approval, the state's top corrections official said Tuesday. State officials filed the plan, which would reduce the state's 143,000 inmate population by 33,000..California voters in November would have to approve taxes to fund the plan, and state legislators also would have to approve money for the measure, officials said. The first year of the plan would cost $460 million.. If funding for the plan isn't advanced by the legislature and voters, a special court panel could order the state to free inmates (so you the law-abiding taxpayers must make a decision...pay MORE taxes or let the criminals loose)

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/07/california.prison.overcrowding/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1