Interesting - but I'll believe it when I see it. It would be nice if they could figure out how to reduce the crimes in the first place because you'd have fewer inmates to start with. I'd rather see the $ put into police enforcement and education than more money for prisions and inmates!

>http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-prisons10-2009feb10,0,815133.story
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>A panel of three federal judges, saying overcrowding in state prisons has deprived inmates of their right to adequate healthcare, tentatively ruled Monday that the state must reduce the population in those lockups by as many as 57,000 people.
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