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"The Prison Overcrowding Fix"

"The Prison Overcrowding Fix": Today's edition of The New York Times contains a news analysis that begins, "In San Francisco last week, a federal court was hearing final arguments in the prison overcrowding lawsuit that led Monday to an unprecedented decision to reduce the nation's largest prison system by one-third. Just a few blocks away, a state appellate court was affirming a life sentence for Ali Foroutan, convicted of possession of 0.03 gram of methamphetamine."

And today's edition of The Sacramento Bee contains an editorial that begins, "Prisons: Settle, don't appeal."

Full post as published by How Appealing on February 11, 2009 (boomark / email).