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Update from the Penal State: Court keeps the pressure on

By Jonathan Simor

As reported by Denny Walsh in yesterday's SACBEE, the special three judge federal court in the Plata-Coleman prison overcrowding mega case rejected the state's arguments that an inmate cut of less than half of what the court had asked for was good enough given legislative resistance and public safety concerns.The claim of public safety is particularly outrageous given how much of the courts massive August 4th ruling was devoted to examining public safety and how population reduction could be done without prejudice to it. The court significantly cut down the number in order to allow an extra measure of reassurance.When I find the new ruling I'll post it here. Here is the plaintiff's motion for contempt filed a couple of weeks ago.

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on October 23, 2009 (boomark / email).