May 24, 2011
Q&A with CDCR’s Matt Cate on SCOTUS decision to reduce CA inmate population
Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that California must reduce prison overcrowding, potentially by releasing tens of thousands of inmates to correct the persistent violation of inmate rights. Soon after the ruling, some lawmakers and officials began predicting that chaos would overrun the streets as inmates were released en masse to comply with the ruling. The Prison Law Office’s Rebekah Evenson, who helped litigate the suit, disagreed:
What we have seen over the past years is that a number of high-level officials in California government and officials from states all over the country have demonstrated that there are many safe and effective ways to reduce prison populations without increasing crime. So we’re very hopeful that this is going to be taken as an opportunity to take this positive step forward to not just fix what’s wrong in California’s prisons but to start to address the public safety aspects as well...
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