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The state's prison medical care system has been in receivership since 2006, when a federal court ruled in Plata v. Brown that the state failed to provide a constitutional level of medical care to its prisoners. Since 2009, the state has been under court order to reduce prison overcrowding to no higher than 137.5% of total design capacity.
From the source report: "This graph shows the number of people in state prisons, local jails, federal prisons, and other systems of confinement from each U.S. state and territory per 100,000 people in that state or territory and the incarceration rate per 100,000 in all countries with a total population of at least 500,000." [26]
Realignment "shifted responsibility for all sentenced non-violent, non-serious, non-sex offenders from state to local jurisdictions", [1] which decreased California prison populations, increased California county jail populations, and changed the types and distribution of crimes for which people were serving sentences in county jails.
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In this year's budget, the administration of Gov. Gavin Newsom said it was "committed to right-sizing California's prison system to reflect the needs of the state" and could close three more ...
California's free prison phone calls are among a series of recent changes to overhaul Folsom State Prison, pictured, and the rest of the state's corrections system. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Convicted of murdering 4 people in 1984, and suspected of killing at least one other person. [14] [15] Steven David Catlin: D32989 Convicted of poisoning his two wives and his adoptive mother. [16] Tiequon Cox: D29801 Crips member who was convicted of murdering 4 people that were related to NFL player Kermit Alexander. [17] Richard Allen Davis ...
Folsom California State Prison is a California State Prison in Folsom, California, United States, approximately 20 miles (32 km) northeast of the state capital of Sacramento. It is one of 34 adult institutions operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation .