The US Supreme Court ruled on May 23 to uphold an order requiring California to release up to 46,000 prisoners to remedy overcrowding in the state's prisons. The ruling in Brown v. Plata calls on California to reduce its prison population from more than 200% of design capacity to 137.5% of capacity within two years. The 5-4 decision written by Justice Anthony Kennedy finds that the extreme overcrowding of the California prison system is causing inmates to receive inadequate medical care in violation of the Eighth Amendment.
Recent comments
2 days 8 hours ago
5 days 23 hours ago
1 week 23 hours ago
5 weeks 3 days ago
6 weeks 4 days ago
6 weeks 4 days ago
7 weeks 6 days ago
13 weeks 1 day ago
15 weeks 4 days ago
20 weeks 4 days ago