The State - News from Feb. 8, 1987
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The entire five-member Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors was sentenced to five days in jail for disobeying a San Jose judge’s orders to ease jail overcrowding. However, Superior Court Judge Spurgeon Avakian, who had ordered the supervisors to provide additional individual cells for male prisoners, said the five could purge themselves if, by March 13, they can show him a plan to build a new jail that would provide 96 additional cells by Dec. 1.
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