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Trial begins over California prison crowding

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Trial begins over California prison crowding By DON THOMPSON -Nov. 19, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Attorneys for the state and inmates' rights groups clashed Tuesday at the opening of a high-stakes trial over whether California's jam-packed prisons have led to unconstitutionally poor medical and mental health care. If the special panel of three federal judges rules against the state, another trial will be held next year to determine remedies. Possible solutions include an order to release inmates before they have completed their full sentences, a move opposed by the Schwarzenegger administration. Attorneys for the inmates want the prison population reduced from about 156,300 inmates to 110,000. Trial begins over California prison crowding Further delay in solving California's prison crowding will mean only "additional pain, suffering and death for our clients," Michael Bien, one of the attorneys representing inmates, said during Tuesday's hearing...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 19, 2008 (boomark / email).