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California has not been spending any money on prison capacity for decades ( we pay our guards the second highest wage in the US though) ……. the average age of their prison system etc. is 50 years...
http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/FPCM/docs/MasterPlan2009_pages_1-249.pdf...
I have to agree with the majority decision, this should not be a partisan view imho, its not the inmates fault that California has dropped kicked this. I live here, I don't want them out but , this has been going on for 20 years...again, ala immigration etc. the Politicos punted till it became impossible to avoid.
( and we know part of the reason, in our legislature it became political poison, there by unfeasible to fund bills to build prisons to incarcerate more minorities)
In any event, either they pay more to rent space elsewhere or…..
High court backs cuts in Calif. prison population
The Supreme Court on Monday narrowly endorsed reducing California's cramped prison population by more than 30,000 inmates to fix sometimes deadly problems in medical care, ruling that federal judges retain enormous power to oversee troubled state prisons.
The court said in a 5-4 decision that the reduction is "required by the Constitution" to correct longstanding violations of inmates' rights. The order mandates a prison population of no more than 110,000 inmates, still far above the system's designed capacity.
There were more than 143,000 inmates in the state's 33 adult prisons as of May 11, meaning roughly 33,000 inmates will need to be transferred to other jurisdictions or released.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, a California native, wrote the majority opinion, in which he included photos of severe overcrowding. The court's four Democratic appointees joined with Kennedy.
"The violations have persisted for years. They remain uncorrected," Kennedy said. The lawsuit challenging the provision of mental health care was filed in 1990.
Justice Antonin Scalia said in dissent that the court order is "perhaps the most radical injunction issued by a court in our nation's history."
Scalia, reading his dissent aloud Monday, said it would require the release of "the staggering number of 46,000 convicted felons."
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High court backs cuts in Calif. prison population - Yahoo! News
http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/FPCM/docs/MasterPlan2009_pages_1-249.pdf...
I have to agree with the majority decision, this should not be a partisan view imho, its not the inmates fault that California has dropped kicked this. I live here, I don't want them out but , this has been going on for 20 years...again, ala immigration etc. the Politicos punted till it became impossible to avoid.
( and we know part of the reason, in our legislature it became political poison, there by unfeasible to fund bills to build prisons to incarcerate more minorities)
In any event, either they pay more to rent space elsewhere or…..
High court backs cuts in Calif. prison population
The Supreme Court on Monday narrowly endorsed reducing California's cramped prison population by more than 30,000 inmates to fix sometimes deadly problems in medical care, ruling that federal judges retain enormous power to oversee troubled state prisons.
The court said in a 5-4 decision that the reduction is "required by the Constitution" to correct longstanding violations of inmates' rights. The order mandates a prison population of no more than 110,000 inmates, still far above the system's designed capacity.
There were more than 143,000 inmates in the state's 33 adult prisons as of May 11, meaning roughly 33,000 inmates will need to be transferred to other jurisdictions or released.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, a California native, wrote the majority opinion, in which he included photos of severe overcrowding. The court's four Democratic appointees joined with Kennedy.
"The violations have persisted for years. They remain uncorrected," Kennedy said. The lawsuit challenging the provision of mental health care was filed in 1990.
Justice Antonin Scalia said in dissent that the court order is "perhaps the most radical injunction issued by a court in our nation's history."
Scalia, reading his dissent aloud Monday, said it would require the release of "the staggering number of 46,000 convicted felons."
more at-
High court backs cuts in Calif. prison population - Yahoo! News
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