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| Crowding hurts the ill |
| By The Associated Press |
| Published: 11/21/2008 |
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CALIFORNIA - Inmates with open, bleeding wounds routinely use communal showers and suicidal prisoners are sometimes kept for hours inside small cages, witnesses testified in a lawsuit over state prison crowding. The four guards who testified before a three-judge panel Thursday supported earlier evidence suggesting that substandard medical and mental health care is a result of jam-packed prisons. The state, which argues that prison conditions are improving, was scheduled to begin its defense Friday. California's 33 adult prisons are designed to hold about 100,000 inmates, but currently have more than 156,000. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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