The only sane thing to do is to follow in the footsteps of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and erect tent city prisons for all their excess prisoners.
First and foremost, you don’t release prisoners from prison before they have served their sentences.
Second, tent prisons are both very inexpensive and conform to *international* standards of not being “cruel or unusual”, since they are also “military field conditions”.
Third, by eliminating overcrowding, you actually significantly improve the conditions of your brick prisons.
Finally, tent prisons can provide tens of thousands of beds overnight. So the problem is dealt with quickly.
Agreed, but that would not happen in CA.