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Everything Revolves Around Overcrowding: The State of California’s Prisons

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2010 by Donald Specter published in Prison Legal News August, 2010, page 1
Filed under: Systemic Medical Neglect, Crime, Statistics/Trends, Totality of Conditions, Overcrowding, Staffing, PLRA, Physical Injury Rule, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides. Location: California.
by Donald Specter, Director, Prison Law Office

I. Introduction

California has the nation’s largest and the world’s third-largest prison system.1 In two separate class action lawsuits, filed a decade apart, California prisoners sued the governor and corrections officials for violating their rights under the Eighth Amendment’s Cruel and Unusual Punishment …

 

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