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Next stop SCOTUS (or settlement) for California prison litigation?

By Douglas A. Berman

This morning's New York Times article about yesterday's tentative ruling by a three-judge panel in California's long-running prison litigation confirm my sense that this story has so many interesting dimensions.  Here are snippets from the very effective article in today's NYTimes:  The California prison system must reduce overcrowding by as many as 55,000 inmates within three years to provide a constitutional level of medical and mental health care, a federal three-judge panel tentatively ruled Monday....  ?The evidence is compelling that there is no relief other than a prisoner-release order that will remedy the unconstitutional prison conditions,? the panel said in its tentative ruling. The California attorney general, Jerry Brown, vowed to appeal the ruling...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 10, 2009 (boomark / email).