{"id":257,"date":"2007-07-24T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/07\/24\/california-prison-overcrowding\/"},"modified":"2007-07-24T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T18:28:00","slug":"california-prison-overcrowding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/07\/24\/california-prison-overcrowding\/","title":{"rendered":"california prison overcrowding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/402-calprison.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5090888318833006818\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/403-calprison.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>in response to lawsuits documenting inadequate services for physical and mental health in california prisons, federal judges have ordered creation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/24\/us\/24calif.html\">a three-judge panel<\/a>, charged with reducing overcrowding in that state. i&#8217;m guessing that the three judges won&#8217;t be operating out of the triple-bunk setup shown at left, in vacaville&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dist20.casen.govoffice.com\/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&amp;SEC=%7B26EBB4A8-A011-45C2-AA03-FCE8FD03F657%7D\">solano prison<\/a> gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>according to bjs sources, california is now home to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ojp.usdoj.gov\/bjs\/pub\/pdf\/pjim06.pdf\">175,000 state prisoners<\/a>, far more than any other state and only about 15,000 inmates fewer than the entire federal system. that said, the state&#8217;s incarceration <em>rate<\/em> of 476 per 100,000 is still below the national average of 497. nevertheless, the system is expanding rapidly, growing by 8,583 inmates from midyear 2005 to midyear 2006. moreover, california has a higher than average rate of parolees and it <a href=\"http:\/\/ucicorrections.seweb.uci.edu\/projects\/parole_violators.shtml\">returns these parolees to prison<\/a> at a <em>much <\/em>higher than average rate, often for technical violations. though governor schwarzenegger just signed a $7.7 billion prison construction bill, it will be tough (and, some say, impossible) for the state to build its way out of these problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in response to lawsuits documenting inadequate services for physical and mental health in california prisons, federal judges have ordered creation of a three-judge panel, charged with reducing overcrowding in that state. i&#8217;m guessing that the three judges won&#8217;t be operating out of the triple-bunk setup shown at left, in vacaville&#8217;s solano prison gymnasium. according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}