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| Chiefs: Calif. prisons unmanageable |
| By Mercury News |
| Published: 11/20/2008 |
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CALIFORNIA - California's prisons are so large that they are virtually unmanageable, officials who have led corrections systems in Pennsylvania, Maine and Washington state said Wednesday. Their testimony came during the second day of a federal trial over whether crowded prisons have led to unconstitutionally poor medical and mental health care for California inmates. If a special three-judge panel decides that crowding is the primary problem, they plan a second trial next year that could lead to an order to release inmates. "I don't know of another state, your honor, that has anything approaching this level of overcrowding. It just doesn't exist," testified Joseph Lehman, who headed corrections systems in Pennsylvania, Maine and Washington state. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. ly run prisons in California and other states. |
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