Why do they need to be released? Why not move them to other prisons, maybe even outsource to other states?
California needs to choose - a $20 billion “speed rail” that only developers and politicians really want, or jails and prisons to house criminals.
And I will add, the federal government has been derelict. They need to send the states the cash costs of educating, providing health care, and imprisoning criminal illegal immigrants.
The Federal Government that has no money, must first take it from the State in order to give it to the State, minus a handling fee. Perfect.