The State - News from July 12, 1985

A judge rejected a request to ease a court order requiring a reduction in the number of inmates at Fresno County’s overcrowded jail. The county asked that the timetable be adjusted on grounds that officials are proceeding in good faith to build a new jail. The Board of Supervisors hoped to avoid spending more than $1 million on temporary measures to comply with the order issued in May by Superior Court Judge Frank Creede Jr. But Creede refused to soften his requirement that the jail population be down to 710 by October, 1986. Sheriff Harold McKinney previously reported that the number of inmates was down to the 935 maximum that Creede had ordered by this July 1.