Judges back a one-third reduction in CA state prison population

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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-prisons10-2009feb10,0,815133.story

Judges back a one-third reduction in state prison population


Jurists issue tentative ruling in lawsuit brought by inmates, who say overcrowding in state prisons violates their right to adequate healthcare.
By Michael Rothfeld
February 10, 2009

Reporting from Sacramento -- A panel of three federal judges, saying overcrowding in state prisons has deprived inmates of their right to adequate healthcare, tentatively ruled Monday that the state must reduce the population in those lockups by as many as 57,000 people.

The judges issued the decision after a trial in two long-running cases brought by inmates to protest the state of medical and mental healthcare in the prisons.

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Although their order is not final, U.S. District Court Judges Thelton Henderson and Lawrence Karlton and 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephen Reinhardt effectively told the state that it had lost the trial and would have to make dramatic changes in its prisons unless it could reach a settlement with inmates' lawyers.

[Hippo_Tron]

1. This is a problem that can be solved overnight, let out all of the non-violent drug offenders

[DRoseDARs]

2. My money's on the white-collar criminals...

Republicans have time and time again that they don't believe stealing money should be a crime.

[Hippo_Tron]

3. I highly doubt 1/3rd of the prison population is white-collar criminals

Thus they're gonna have to release some other folks as well.

[DRoseDARs]

4. I think you missed something...

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[Hippo_Tron]

5. Sorry, it has been a long day

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[DRoseDARs]

6. Anyway, I'm sure the CA state Republicans would find a way to make up the numbers...

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