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Wed 02 Feb 2009Judges rule California must reduce prison population
A PANEL of three federal judges, finding that overcrowding in state prisons has deprived inmates of their right to adequate health care, has ruled tentatively that California must reduce the population in those facilities by as many as 57,000 people.
The judges issued the decision after a trial in two long-running cases brought by inmates to protest at the state of medical and mental health care in the prisons.
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