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Case Study -Will the Supreme Court Keep Prisons Overcrowded?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Case Study Will the Supreme Court Keep Prisons Overcrowded? By Adam Cohen, June 17, 2010 Time Magazine California is often on the cutting edge of national trends ? and so it is now with the "ugly bed." That is prison lingo for double and triple bunks that are jammed into gymnasiums and dayrooms because there is nowhere else to put the inmates. It is an inhumane and dangerous way to house prisoners, but it is one that has become all too common in California's jam-packed correctional facilities. It has been nearly four years since Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a "Prison Overcrowding State of Emergency," warning that conditions in the state's 33 adult prisons posed a serious risk to inmates and staff. But the overcrowding has continued. And while California's legislature has dithered, the federal courts have stepped in, ordering the state to bring down its prison population...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 18, 2010 (boomark / email).