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Out of jail for lack of space
By Fernando Mexia - spam - 05/08/2009
Three U.S. federal judges have ordered California authorities to evict more than 40,000 inmates in state prisons are so overcrowded as to violate the constitutional rights of prisoners. The precarious health care that appears to receive the convicts are behind this judicial ruling which says that overcrowding has resulted in avoidable deaths of some residents and the lack of space has forced prison gyms become barracks and install bunk beds in the hallways. A situation which, they said the judges, makes prisons are magazines in which it is difficult to curb violence among prisoners, and the spread of disease.
In total it is estimated that California should put out 27 percent of their inmates to enter within the law, an option that Governor Schwarzenegger recently shuffled, although driven by the desire to save rather than humanitarian reasons. This was completed to avoid dismissing the alarm. Now the authorities have 45 days to devise an alternative plan to convince the judges that they can solve the problem without that prisoners with minor offenses regain their freedom soon.
The pen.








