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.
Australia's prison system is crowded to bursting point, with new attitudes towards crime and punishment sending record numbers of people to jail.ew South Wales has the highest number of prisoners-with the system at its capacity of 11,000 - but the State Government has ignored warnings from its jails boss that new prisons need to be built. Former judge says money being spent on overcrowded jails would be better spent on crime prevention.