SACRAMENTO (KCBS) -- California has turned down an offer from the state of Michigan to take some prisoners off our hands.
This is all part of an effort to reduce California\'s prison population as ordered by the courts.
This looked, for a little while anyway, like a win-win. By contracting with Michigan to take some of California\'s prisoners, the Department of Corrections would comply with a court order to move 40,000 inmates out of California\'s prisons.
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KCBS\' Rebecca Corral reports
By taking our prisoners (for pay, of course), Michigan could keep a couple of soon-to-be-closed prisons open and save jobs.
But it just wasn\'t to be. The facility officials were looking at was only appropriate for minimum security inmates and it\'s the maximum security inmates who need a new home.
California, meanwhile, plans to fight the court order to shrink its prison population.
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