Prison Ruling Appeal Will Not End Oversight, Editorial Says

A Sacramento Bee editorial argues that Brown's pledge to appeal a court-ordered reduction to the state's prison population to help improve inmates' medical care might "delay the reckoning" but is "unlikely to end federal oversight." It adds, "All this fighting is sidetracking everybody from the real task -- which should be finding common ground around durable remedies to reduce [the] prison population."

• "Editorial: Brown Needs To Convene Prison Settlement Talks" (Sacramento Bee, 5/8).