California Reduces Prison Crowding

California’s State Corrections Secretary announced an end today to the use of "nontraditional beds".

Due to overcrowding, California had nearly twenty thousand bunk beds set up in gymnasiums and other areas previously used for recreation.

The change in California prison policy was due to a supreme court ruling that called the overcrowding  “Cruel and Unusual”.

KBOO’s Joe Meyer spoke with Sara Norman, managing attorney of the Prison Law Office in Berkeley, California for details.