California is planning to start sending more prisoners to jails in other states. State officials are moving the inmates even if they don't want to go. This week two federal judges ordered the creation of a three-judge panel to consider putting a cap on the number of state prisoners.
Chief Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary Louis Mauro says the transfers are one way the state can show the courts it's reducing the prison population quickly.
Mauro : We want to get them up to 400 a month and the governor's office is doing everything we can to get those transfers going because that is something that we can do immediately to address overcrowding.
The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation transferred 40 California inmates to a facility in Mississippi last week. They were the first group to be transferred involuntarily. So far, just over four hundred inmates have been sent to facilities in three states.
A Corrections spokesman says they hope to transfer 400 inmates a month within a few weeks.
