California's elder parole law, which considers convicts aged 50 and older as elderly, is facing criticism as it allows some ...

A federal court has forced California to reduce its prison population by diverting more low-level offenders to county jails. But the state still has 9,600 too many prisoners, and they need to be moved ...

The overcrowding of California’s state prisons led Governor Schwarzenegger to declare a state of emergency late last year. Yesterday, two federal judges ruled simultaneously that he and the ...

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