Government
Dec. 2, 2010
High Court Divided Over State Prison Population
A divided U.S. Supreme Court battled Tuesday over whether federal judges can order California to reduce the population in its overcrowded prisons by as many as 46,000 inmates.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
WASHINGTON A divided U.S. Supreme Court battled Tuesday over whether federal judges can order California to reduce the population in its overcrowded prisons by as many as 46,000 inmates.
The court's two ideological wings signaled their positions over the course of the 80-minute session, with the liberal justices seeming eager to endorse the judicial order and the conservatives sympathetic to th...
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