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| CA Prisoner Rights Now In Hands Of Supreme Court |
| By peoplesworld.org |
| Published: 12/02/2010 |
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The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Nov. 30 in the long legal battle over the rights of California prison inmates to decent health care. The state is appealing a federal court ruling that the overflowing prison population must be cut by as many as 40,000 prisoners over a two-year period so the remainder can receive adequate treatment. Some 144,000 inmates are now held in the state's 33 adult prisons, which were built to hold about 80,000. The administration of outgoing Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger contends the federal court's order would reduce the prison population too much, too soon, posing a threat to public safety. Arguing the state's position was Washington-based attorney Carter Phillips, while Donald Specter, director of the Berkeley, Calif.-based Prison Law Office, disagreed that safety would be threatened and contended that California has many ways to lower the population including releasing older and low-risk inmates, moving others to prisons in other states, and changing the rules so people aren't sent back to prison for technical parole violations. Read More. |
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