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Federal Court Grants Six-Month Extension to Reduce CDCR Prison Population
Loaded on March 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2013, page 24
The three-judge federal court over a long-standing prison healthcare class-action suit against California took a slight turn on January 29, 2013, when the court gave the state a six-month extension to achieve the prison population reduction it had ordered previously.
Filed under:
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Conditions of Confinement,
Overcrowding,
Suicides.
Location:
California.
The court had required the California Department of Corrections and ...
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