{"id":33469,"date":"2013-01-09T08:34:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T15:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=33469"},"modified":"2013-01-09T08:34:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T15:34:20","slug":"latimes-gov-jerry-brown-calls-on-feds-to-give-up-oversight-of-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/01\/09\/latimes-gov-jerry-brown-calls-on-feds-to-give-up-oversight-of-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"LATimes: Gov. Jerry Brown calls on feds to give up oversight of prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO \u2014 A combative Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday declared that &#8220;the prison crisis is over in California&#8221; and demanded an end to years of intervention by federal judges and expensive edicts designed to reduce crowding and improve inmate healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At some point, the job&#8217;s done,&#8221; Brown said at a Capitol news conference before catching a plane for Los Angeles, where he repeated the message. &#8220;We spent billions of dollars&#8221; complying with the court orders, the governor said. &#8220;It is now time to return control of our prison system to California.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brown&#8217;s push came as the state was faced with a deadline to produce a plan to further shrink the number of inmates in its 33 prisons. Late Monday night, the administration unveiled its proposal \u2014 &#8220;under protest&#8221; \u2014 but also filed motions calling for an end to caps on the inmate population and judicial oversight of mental health care.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-prisons-brown-20130109,0,1068148.story\" title=\"Gov. Jerry Brown calls on feds to give up oversight of prisons\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO \u2014 A combative Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday declared that &#8220;the prison crisis is over in California&#8221; and demanded an end to years of intervention by federal judges and expensive edicts designed to reduce crowding and improve inmate healthcare. &#8220;At some point, the job&#8217;s done,&#8221; Brown said at a Capitol news conference before catching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33470,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33469\/revisions\/33470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}