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Such federal interventions have become increasingly rare under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, which restricts inmates' access to courts and prohibits federal courts from imposing population caps on prisons except as a last resort.

The state now meets court-set population caps by sending thousands of inmates to contract prisons.

Because of severe overcrowding and court-ordered population caps, the Los Angeles County jails do not typically hold those charged with misdemeanors.

Brown projects that addition of new beds at existing prisons, early inmate release programs and conversion of drug crimes to misdemeanors under Proposition 47 will reduce prison crowding sufficiently to meet court-ordered population caps.

At the same time, federal judges agreed to the state's request for a two-year extension to meet population caps the courts had been trying to enforce for years.

The plan will also fall short of the three-judge panel's recommended population cap.

According to the CDCR's reports, CIW is currently at 132% capacity, which is below the court-ordered population cap of 137.5%) and Chowchilla prison is at 145%.

But the panel has not yet imposed the population cap, and may not need to if legislative changes, like the corrections package approved on Friday, continue.

Federal courts required the state to outline by midnight Thursday how it intended to meet a court-ordered population cap on inmates by the end of the year.

Attorney General Jerry Brown of California vowed to appeal the judges' final order to the United States Supreme Court, a prospect that could delay the carrying out of the prison population cap or overturn it.

A federal judicial panel on Thursday denied Gov. Jerry Brown's request to lift a court-ordered prison population cap and threatened him and other state officials with contempt of court if they fail to comply by the end of this year.