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SACRAMENTO, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has until midnight to submit a plan to federal judges on reducing state prison overcrowding by 40,000 inmates.
Observers believe he's likely to offer a mix of old and new ideas that reflect a reluctance to take direction from the court, The Los Angeles Times said Friday.
California has appealed the order to the U.S. Supreme Court, but cannot wait for action by the high court before meeting the deadline set by the three-judge panel.
The governor sought in vain to push a plan through the legislature that would have helped reduce the state budget and cut the prison population by nearly 40,000 as the judges had demanded.
The judges ruled that overcrowding in a prison system that holds nearly 170,000 inmates is causing inadequate medical and mental healthcare. Building new prisons, they said, "remains years away."
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