March 29, 2024
California prison population drops, increases coming
SACRAMENTO - (INT) - California's prison population is being downsized and may reach a low point next year.

The California Budget Project predicts the number of imprisoned adults will decline until next year followed by a modest increase into 2019. Adult incarcerations declined by more than one-fifth between 2007 and 2013. It's due largely to Proposition 47, approved by voters in 2014, which reclassified some drug and property crimes as misdemeanors.

The number of adults incarcerated by the state peaked at about 173,300 in 2007.

The number of adults sentenced to state prison for second strikes is decreasing, possibly because Proposition 47 converted nonserious, nonviolent felonies that had previously qualified as second strikes into misdemeanors.

A second-strike conviction doubles the prison term for that offense.
Story Date: July 29, 2015
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