A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that the Governor was bringing his so-called “prison solution” to the three judge panel.  Yesterday the judges said, try again:

A federal court on Wednesday rejected Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plan to solve California’s prison overcrowding crisis, giving the state three weeks to devise an alternative or risk an order that seizes control of how more than 40,000 inmates are released from the prison system over the next two years.

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“This court is unaware of any excuse for the state’s failure to comply,” the judges wrote in Wednesday’s order. “We will view with the utmost seriousness any further failure to comply with our orders.”

Prisoner rights lawyers say if the state doesn’t come up with a new plan in 21 days, they will.

“They gave them one more chance,” said Donald Specter, head of the Prison Law Office. “We think we can come up with a plan that is safe and meets the court’s order.” (CoCo Times)

Oh yay, more legislative wrangling on prison issues. That’ll turn out fantastically, I’m sure.