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| CA takes first step in appeal of prison population cap ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court |
| By scpr.org - Julie Small |
| Published: 05/14/2013 |
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California officials on Monday appealed a federal court’s decision to uphold a cap of the state’s prison population that must be met by the end of the year. In January, attorneys for the state asked the three-judge panel, which in 2009 ordered the reduction of inmates, to reconsider whether such a cap was still necessary, given a dramatic population drop in the state’s 33 prisons and improvements to inmates' medical and mental healthcare. The judges had ordered the state to reduce the prison population by 40,000 inmates after they found that overcrowding in the prisons was the main reason inmates suffered, and sometimes died from, a lack of treatment. Read More. |
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