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Where the Prisoners Will Go

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A federal court order mandating that California release some 40,000 of its prisoners has the state scrambling to come up with a plan to comply. Inmates are normally released to the counties they lived in when they were arrested -- and data from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows that some counties will be more burdened than others. We talk to Sacramento Bee reporter Philip Reese who's analyzed the data.

More: The Sacramento Bee's interactive map of counties with the most residents in prison

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