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Judges Order Thousands Of Calif. Inmates Released

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Feb 9, 2009 5:10 pm US/Central

Judges Order Thousands Of Calif. Inmates Released

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Click to enlarge 1 of 1: A special panel of federal judges has tentatively ruled that California will have to release tens of thousands of inmates to relieve overcrowding.
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A special panel of federal judges has tentatively ruled that California will have to release tens of thousands of inmates to relieve overcrowding.

The judges say no other solution will improve conditions so poor that inmates die regularly of suicides or lack of proper care.

They say the state can cut the population of its 33 adult prisons through changes in parole and other policies without endangering public safety.

The three judges did not set a final population figure, saying that will come later.

In Monday's tentative ruling, they said they want the state to present a plan to trim the population of the nation's largest state prison system in two to three years.