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U.S. Supreme Court to hear California prison overcrowding case

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

U.S. Supreme Court to hear California prison overcrowding case By Howard Mintz 06/14/2010 San Jose Mercury News The fate of California's expensive, overstuffed prison system is now in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court. In a brief order, the nation's high court Monday agreed to hear Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's appeal of a federal court's unprecedented ruling requiring the state to shed nearly 40,000 inmates from a prison system deemed so overcrowded that it violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The justices are expected to consider arguments in the case when they return for their next term in October. The case will be a crucial test for state prison systems across the country, pitting the ability of states such as California to fix their own problems against the powers of federal judges who step in and order sweeping reforms when a prison system fails to address chronic deficiencies...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 16, 2010 (boomark / email).