Tag Archives: Prison Population

Just few days back the Supreme Court ordered California to cut its prison population and now Californian prison officials come up with some bizarre excuse that might make you ask, “What were the officials doing till 450 violent criminals walked free right in front of their eyes? Shouldn’t it have struck them when that something was wrong with the system?” ... Read More »

The U.S. Supreme Court ordered California on Monday to reduce the population of its jammed prisons by more than 30,000 in two years to repair a health care system that lower courts found was defying constitutional standards and endangering guards as well as inmates. Federal judges rightly found that overcrowding in a prison system that has held nearly twice its ... Read More »