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May 25, 2011 02:02 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/CXCjYAxXkac/california-prison-ov.html
California prison overcrowding, in photos
Mmechanic sends us Mother Jones's "slideshow of some of the photos that convinced the California Supreme Court to order the corrections department to unload some 30,000 of its prisoners." Writing on behalf of the court's five-vote majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy noted that this unprecedented measure had become the only way to remedy the "serious" and "uncorrected" constiutional violations against inmates in the state's correctional facilities, particularly the sick and mentally ill. "For years the medical and mental health care provided by California's prisons has fallen short of minimum constitutional requirements and has failed to meet prisoners' basic health needs. Needless suffering and death have been the well-documented result," he wrote. "Short term gains in the provision of care have been eroded by the long-term effects of severe and pervasive overcrowding." His decision included vivid examples of the problem, from open dorms so packed they can't be effectively monitored, to suicidal inmates "held for prolonged periods in telephone-booth sized cages without toilets." California's Jam-Packed Prisons (Thanks, Mmechanic!)...
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