SACRAMENTO (KRON) -- More convicted felons will serve at least part of their sentences in county jails under Governor Jerry Brown's plan to comply with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on California's prison system.

The governor is announcing his new prisons plan Tuesday.  Under the court's ruling, no more than 110,000 prisoners can be in California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation facilities.  Right now there are about 143,000 state prison inmates.

Under Governor Brown's plan, responsibility for thousands of lower risk inmates will shift from the state to the local counties.  It remains unclear how the state will pay the counties to house the inmates as state lawmakers remain divided over the governor's plan to extend existing tax increases.

California prisons were designed to hold about 80,000 inmates.

The Brown Administration concedes it might not be able to reach the court's target of a 10,000 prisoner reduction by November.  However the state attorney general's office is not asking for a delay.

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