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| California removes "nontraditional beds" from prisons |
| By ktvl.com - AP |
| Published: 03/03/2012 |
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California prisons are marking a milestone as officials remove the last of nearly 20,000 extra beds that had been jammed into gymnasiums and other common areas to house inmates who overflowed traditional prison cells. Inmates in rows of double- and triple-stacked bunk beds became "the iconic symbol of California's prison overcrowding crisis," Corrections Secretary Matthew Cate said when he announced an end to what the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation formally calls "nontraditional beds." Crowding was so bad that it was hours before guards discovered that an inmate had been killed in his bunk in a makeshift dormitory at the California Rehabilitation Center in Riverside County in 2005, former state corrections secretary Jeanne Woodford told federal judges in 2008. The judges forced California to radically change the way it punishes criminals. The prison population has dropped by nearly 19,000 inmates since a new law took effect in October. The state is now sending less serious offenders to county jails instead of state prisons. California currently has nearly 142,000 inmates but must shed another 17,000 inmates to reach the June 2103 court deadline to reduce crowding in its 33 adult prisons. The federal courts ordered the state to reduce its inmate population as a way to improve inmate medical care, which was so inadequate that judges ruled it violated prisoners' constitutional rights. Read More. |
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