Then U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, left, meets with Julio M. Algarin, warden at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Lower Providence in January 2016. The pair were discussing a prison grant for the Linking to Employment Activities Pre Release to establish jail-based employment centers to help inmates prepare for post-release job opportunities.
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About half of those inmates are already ticketed for prison.
Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes has attempted to appeal Wilson s order, but so far has failed, compelling him to submit a plan on how to halve the inmate population.
American Civil Liberties Union attorneys, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of several current and former inmates, said in papers filed this week Barnes failed to submit the plan Wilson ordered.
Instead, the ACLU attorneys argued, Barnes “devotes most of his plan to discussing measures that are unrelated to population reduction. None of these measures address the urgent need for social distancing within the jail. The few measures that could conceivably promote social distancing are woefully inadequate.”