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California Prison Population Reduction

By Walin & Klarich

California must Reduce Prison Population by 57,000 People, Raising the Question of Whether There Will be an Increased Need for Criminal Defense Attorneys Three federal judges have ruled that California must reduce its prison population by 57,000 people over the next two or three years, which could have quite an influence on the demand for skilled criminal defense attorneys in California. The judges indicated that California state prisons are severely overcrowded and that this move is necessary to address the problem. They indicated that the overcrowding has ?deprived inmates of their legal right to adequate health care? amongst other conditions in question. California currently has 33 state prisons in operation. These prisons currently hold 158,000 inmates, yet were originally made to hold just 84,000 (the rest of the 170,000 in the ?correctional system? are out of state or in other facilities)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on April 29, 2009 (boomark / email).