Federal Court Orders California to Release 9,600 More Prisoners.

The article focuses on the Supreme Court case of Brown v. Plata where the court upheld the decision of the three-judge federal court to direct the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to reduce the prison population to 137.5 percent by the end of 2013. This decision came after the federal court panel fund that overcrowding and poor prison demonstration had resulted in several inhumane living conditions for the prisoners.