June 13, 2011
Another online news group blames CCPOA for CA’s financial woes?
The Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court order that tens of thousands of violent felons in the California prison system to be released or transferred to other facilities due to unacceptable conditions at the state's prisons. More than 143,000 inmates are housed in the state's 33 adult prisons, built to accommodate only 80,000 prisoners. The prison population remains about 32,000 more than the limit set in 2005 by a federal appellate panel.
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority said California prisons had "fallen short of minimum constitutional requirements" due to overcrowding. In some institutions, as many as 200 prisoners live in a gymnasium, with as many as 54 sharing a toilet.
In addition, health care for ailing prisoners has degraded to a point that one inmate a week died from ailments that could have been prevented. Judicial wrangling and administrative posturing have not corrected these inexcusable conditions...
LINK - Catholic.org
