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August 5, 2009

California Ordered to Reduce Prison Population
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In California, the state prison system has been ordered to reduce its
population by 27 percent within two years. On Tuesday, a panel of
federal judges said California’s prison population needs to decline by
40,000 to address an overcrowded prison healthcare system that leads to
one preventable death a week.



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