By: Safa Sahri
Due to this problem judicial officials ordered that one-fourth of the number of prisoners be decreased. In Chino (a California prison) the large crowds have caused many riots. There are more than 32 prisons in California. In 1977 the population of them was 19,600 and ten years later with an 811 percent increase there was 159 thousand. Out of every 8 prisoners in the entire United States one of them is in California. The state needs at least 30 more prisons to solve this problem. One out of 11 people in the United States has been sent to prison and one-fourth of this number are black.
