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CA: Panel of Judges Rule State must release up to 57,000 prisoners---3 articles

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

From the Los Angeles Times 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 decisionafter a trial in two long-running cases brought by inmates to protest the state of medical and mental healthcare in the prisons. Although their order is not final, U.S. District Court Judges Thelton Henderson and Lawrence Karlton and 9th U...continue to full post

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