It's Thursday, March 13, 1986: Microsoft, founded more than a decade earlier and already a powerhouse in the world of personal computer software, executes an initial public stock offering that will raise $61 million for the company and leave 30-year-old co-founder Bill Gates unfathomably wealthy.
CDCR today announced that it has met an important benchmark to reduce the stateâs prison population. A Three-Judge Court order, affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court, requires CDCR to cut its prison population to 124,000 by June 27, 2012 and ultimately reduce overcrowding by 34,000 inmates. On June 20, the most recent count, Californiaâs prison inmate population was 121,129.
Despite efforts to reduce incarceration, Oklahomaâs prison population continues to grow at a steady pace.The trend includes a surge of state inmates being held in county jails in recent months and the rate of women in prison reaching its highest recorded level.Oklahoma Department of CorÂ­rections data show that since late 2014, a year when early release policies were relaxed to help reduce incarceration, the number of inmates in corrections facilities has increased by nearly 1,200 ...