Supreme Court Orders California To Set Free 40 000 Prison Washington —the supreme court by a 5 4 vote monday ruled california prison overcrowding unconstitutional and upheld an order that could force the release of about 40,000 inmates to solve. The u.s. supreme court refused friday to let california delay the release of thousands of inmates from state prisons to relieve crowding. in june, a lower court ordered california to release about.
Supreme Court Can Judges Tell California To Release 40 000 Prisoners In 2009, that panel ordered the state to reduce the prison population to 110,000—137.5 percent of its design capacity of 80,000—over two years. the population is currently over 140,000 and was recently as high as 160,000. federal courts have monitored the california prisons for more than a decade because of their failure to provide adequate. A special three judge federal court determined in 2009 that severe overcrowding was a primary cause of the constitutionally inadequate medical and mental health care provided to prisoners and would only be improved by a reduction in the prison population. the court ordered california to reduce its prison population to 137.5 percent of capacity. California's 33 adult prisons were designed to hold about 80,000 inmates but currently have about 145,000 and was ordered to release some 40,000 to get down to what court officials feel will be a. The u.s. supreme court ruled that california must remove tens of thousands of inmates from its prison rolls in the next two years, and state officials vowed to comply, saying they hoped to do so.
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