SACRAMENTO (AP) — A stabbing attack this week on four guards at one overcrowded state prison and a racially sparked brawl at another mark the type of violence that guards, inmates' attorneys and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have been worried about for years.
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California's 33 prisons have a capacity of roughly 100,000 inmates but hold about 170,000. A commission advised Schwarzenegger in 2004 that the prisons could safely hold about 135,000.
The conditions are blamed for a variety of problems, including poor inmate medical care and mental health services, that have prompted inmates and advocacy groups to file numerous lawsuits.
Some of those lawsuits eventually led to federal court oversight and the three-judge panel that will consider how to address the array of difficulties this summer.
USA TodaySending to prison, in mass, mostly teen males with sentences of LWOP is proving to be a burden.
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