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CA: Two Prisoners' View of Overcrowding Crisis

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Two Inmates' Views on California's Prison Overcrowding Crisis New America Media, Commentary, Dwight Abbott and Michael Cabral, Introduction by Michael Kroll, Posted: Apr 13, 2010 Editor's Note: This January, a panel of three federal judges ruled the State of California must reduce its prison population by up to 40,000 inmates, bringing it to 137.5 percent of its designated capacity (which, at 160,000 inmates, is currently at 200 percent of capacity). The order grew out of lawsuits alleging inadequate medical and mental health care in California?s prisons, primarily the result of overcrowding, which had brought the state prison under court receivership. The court, however, stayed its order until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the appeal filed by the Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger administration, which will not likely be decided before the end of this year...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 15, 2010 (boomark / email).