Posted by Benjamin on: 02.15.2009 /
Reuters reported earlier this week that three federal judges have ordered California to release as many as 57,000 of it’s imprisoned inmates, to reduce overcrowding in a system that is incarcerating twice as many people as it was meant to incarcerate.
The U.S. continues to have the highest per capita incarceration rate and the highest total number of people incarcerated of any nation in the world.
Maybe these judges will help us begin to reverse this trend
Read more about U.S. prison population at the wikipedia page