California continues to provide monthly reports on the status of
state prison populations. The latest is the Three-Judge
Panel Update for July. California is required by a February
10, 2014 court order to submit status reports on current in-state
and out-of-state adult prison populations and the measures being
taken to reduce the prison population in response to the order.
CDCR met its final population target of 137.5 percent by February
28, 2016 and the current population is 134.6 percent of design
capacity. However, if the new 1,584 infill beds are counted at
137.5 percent for the compliance calculation, the prison
population is approximately 135.2 percent of design capacity. The
report provides a brief description of Governor Brown’s Public
Safety and Rehabilitation
Act of 2016 (Proposition 57) and includes the current population
total of each of the 34 California correctional institutions.
