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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Bursting at the seams: how did California's prisons become so crowded?

By Rina Palta

The U.S. Supreme Court today took on a $10 billion question: how should California deal with its overcrowded prisons? The case covers decades of controversy, during which the state has been repeatedly charged with endangering the lives of sick inmates. Last year, a federal court decided that California was unable to improve its prisons' mental health and medical services, and it must reduce its prison population by 40,000 inmates. The state contends releasing so many convicts would compromise public safety. Now that the case is in the high court's hands, California's long-standing prison dilemma will finally be solved, one way or another.  Read more and listen to report...

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