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Archive Home > 2009 > February > 10 > Judges order release of California inmates

Judges order release of California inmates


February 10, 2009

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A special panel of federal judges tentatively ruled Monday that California must release tens of thousands of inmates to relieve overcrowding.

The judges said no other solution will improve conditions so poor that inmates die regularly of suicide or from lack of....

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