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Schwarzenegger approved program to ease prison overcrowding [this day at law]
May 3, 2013 by Arjun Mishra
On May 3, 2007, former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill with bipartisan support that designated $7.7 billion to remedy the state's overcrowded prisons. The Public Safety and Offender Rehabilitation Services Act of 2007 attempted to streamline the prison infrastructure system.... [more]
California prisons may not meet standards of court order to reduce population
August 14, 2012 by Rebecca DiLeonardo
California officials have expressed doubt about the state's ability to comply with a court order to reduce its prison populations by 2013. California prison officials had asked the court to allow them to retain 6,000 more inmates than the original court order had determined, saying the state would.... [more]
Venezuela announced release of 40 percent of prisoners to reduce overcrowding [this day at law]
July 31, 2012 by Garrett Eisenhour
On July 31, 2011, Venezuelan Minister of Prisons Iris Varela announced plans to release up to 40 percent of the country's prisoners in order to reduce overcrowding. Other countries have implemented similar measures, including Bangladesh, which released inmates in June 2008 and August 2010. In June.... [more]
Supreme Court upheld order to reduce California prison population [this day at law]
May 23, 2012 by Katherine Bacher
On May 23, 2011, the US Supreme Court upheld an order requiring California to release up to 46,000 prisoners in order to remedy the state's overcrowded prisons. The Court found that California's prison system, which was found to be operating at 200 percent of its intended capacity, violated.... [more]
Federal court rules California prison officials failed to protect disabled inmates
January 14, 2012 by Michael Haggerson
Judge Claudia Wilken of the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled on Friday that California prison officials have failed to protect disabled parolees by not providing them wheelchairs and other mobility assistance devices. She stated that prison officials have failed to.... [more]
Venezuela to release 40 percent of prisoners to reduce overcrowding
August 1, 2011 by Maureen Cosgrove
Venezuelan Minister for Prisons Iris Varela announced Sunday that she plans to release up to 40 percent of the country's prisoners in an effort to reduce prison overcrowding. Varela, who was appointed to the position by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez last week, said roughly 20,000 inmates who.... [more]
California inmates on hunger strike to protest solitary confinement
July 20, 2011 by Julia Zebley
At least 400 inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison have been on a hunger strike since the end of June and are being joined by prisoners in at least 10 other California prisons. Inmates of Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit (SHU), a long-term isolation ward where one-third of the prison's population.... [more]
Supreme Court upholds order to reduce California prison population
May 23, 2011 by Zach Zagger
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled in Brown v. Plata to uphold the order requiring California to release up to 46,000 prisoners to remedy the state's overcrowded prisons. In the 5-4 decision written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court concluded that the extreme overcrowding of the California.... [more]
Federal judge held California prison health care system unconstitutional [this day at law]
January 23, 2011 by Dwyer Arce
On January 23, 2008, a federal judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that the healthcare provided in California prisons does not meet constitutional standards even though medical services have improved significantly since the court assumed oversight of the.... [more]
US state prison population dropped in 2009: report
March 18, 2010 by Bhargav Katikaneni
The number of inmates in US state prisons has dropped for the first time in 40 years, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Center on the States. Led by California and Michigan, the state prison population decreased by 0.4 percent during 2009. Because of a slight increase in the.... [more]
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