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States Cut Prison Budgets but Not Prison Populations
By truth-out.org - Victoria Law
Published: 02/15/2013

Budget shortfalls are prompting California and other states to close prisons and shift inmates, pushing some facilities' populations dramatically over capacity.

"Overcrowding has always been a problem with women in prison," said Wendy, who has spent nearly two decades at California's Valley State Prison (VSP). In a phone interview with Truthout, she recalls the prison's overcrowding in 2007: "There were bunk beds in the day room and the gym. Everywhere you looked, there were people - 60 to 70 people were living in the day room."

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