U.S. high court backs order on California prison crowding

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U.S. high court backs order on California prison crowding

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-declines-halt-order-reduce-california-prison-194534061.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/scX27F1xPkv4_xUzIp33CA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-08-02T194534Z_1_CBRE9711IW100_RTROPTP_2_USA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Inmates sit in a classroom at the Orange County jail in Santa Ana" align="left" title="Inmates sit in a classroom at the Orange County jail in Santa Ana" border="0" /></a>By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Friday to excuse California from a lower-court order demanding that the nation's largest state prison system reduce its inmate population by about 10,000 convicts this year to ease crowding. State prison officials, insisting that further cuts are unnecessary, said they were working to meet the court-ordered prison population target by their December 31 deadline, but warned that doing so would be costly and pose a risk to public safety. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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