Brown v. Plata and Prison Population Controls
Published for NC Criminal Law on May 25, 2011.
On Monday the Supreme Court issued its decision in Brown v. Plata, holding that systemic failures to provide adequate medical and mental health care in the California prison system can only be remedied through judicially-imposed limits on the state’s prison population. In a 5–4 decision, the Court upheld a lower court order requiring California to ... Read more
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