The state of California must release more than 44,000 prisoners in the next two years, according to an order released Tuesday by a panel of three federal judges. Cutting the inmate population is necessary to improve “woefully and constitutionally inadequate” conditions for sick and mentally ill patients, the judges said. We get reactions to the order.
Guests:
Michael Bien, partner at the San Francisco law firm Rosen, Bien and Galvan, LLP and lead counsel for one of the groups of inmates in the prison overcrowding case
John Myers, Sacramento bureau chief for KQED Public Radio
Matthew Cate, secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
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