California prison, which was the site of one of the most serious COVID-19 outbreaks in the United States, will have to reduce its population by more than a third, a state appeals court said Tuesday night.
In a scathing opinion, the First District of California Appeals Court found that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation had shown “deliberate indifference” to the fitness of incarcerated people in San Quentin State Prison near San Francisco. The three-judge panel found that the branch had violated the Eighth Amendment ban on lack of mercy and punishment, not without delay, on the advice of public aptitude experts to halve the criminal population. The court ordered CDCR officials to reduce the criminal population to 1,775 to allow greater social esture within the criminal. The correctional service can simply reduce the duration of the criminal by freeing up criminals or moving them to other state criminals.
Twenty-eight criminals have been killed and about three-quarters of those imprisoned in San Quentin became inflamed with the coronavirus this summer after untested criminals of a Southern California criminal suffering from their own epidemic entered. of criminals there tested positive, public fitness experts visited the criminal and issued an urgent note calling for their population to halve as soon as possible.
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