Lawyers sue again over prison overcrowding in Philadelphia
April 30, 2008
The Inquirer reports, “The Philadelphia prison population hit a record high of more than 9,300 inmates earlier this month, and the jail system is now so overcrowded that more than 2,000 of them are confined three to a cell, according to a class-action lawsuit filed this week.”
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