Swine flu spurs restrictions on Calif. prisoner intake
By Matthew B. Stannard
The San Francisco Chronicle
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SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — Seeking to prevent an outbreak of swine flu from spreading beyond prison walls, officials at San Quentin State Prison on Wednesday stopped accepting prisoners from 16 Northern California counties, including all nine in the Bay Area.
The move follows by two days the prison’s decision to stop transferring prisoners to other facilities in the state.
“Because we’re not transferring people out, it kind of creates this backlog,” said California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Terry Thornton. “There are not enough beds to receive the new inmates.”
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