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    Divided prison release ruling draws sharp, vocal dissent from Scalia (access required)

    A divided Supreme Court upheld a court-ordered release of tens of thousands of California prisoners Monday, ruling that the measure was necessary to remedy prison overcrowding and the resulting violations of inmates' Eighth Amendment rights to medical and mental health care. That 5-4 ruling in Brown v. Plata is one of the largest prison release orders ...

    This entry was posted on Monday, May 23rd, 2011 at 12:30 pm and is filed under Supreme Court. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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