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.
Use of custody On 10 May 2013, the prison population in England and Wales was 83,151. On the same date Scotlandâs prison population was 7,798 and Northern Irelandâs prison population was 1,848. 16 England and Wales have an imprisonment rate of 150 per 100,000 of the population. Scotland has a rate of 146 per 100,000.