November 29, 2010
CA Prison Overcrowding case goes to the U.S. Supreme Court this week
Here's something even prison guards and inmates agree on: a court order cutting California's inmate population by about 40,000.
A three-judge panel in a California federal district court ruled in January that overcrowding in the state's prison system, the nation's largest, is the main cause of substandard medical and mental health care that violates prisoners' Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment.
Overcrowding at a state prison in San Diego last year led authorities to house inmates in the gymnasium.
That ruling is set to be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court, with arguments scheduled for Tuesday...
LINK - Online.WSJ.com
