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"Gulags in the sun"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline given to this notable piece in The Economist discussing California's prison problems.  Here are snippets: The overcrowding in California?s prisons, by far the worst in the country with only Georgia and Alabama coming close, has been the subject of lawsuits for years.  The latest riot came just days after three federal judges, calling conditions ?appalling,? ordered California to prepare, within 45 days, a plan to bring its prison population down to 137% of capacity in order to approach constitutional standards of decency.  Jerry Brown, California?s attorney-general as well as a former governor and likely candidate for governor, has vowed to fight the order.... California has passed around a thousand laws mandating tougher sentencing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 13, 2009 (boomark / email).