Marin County Judge Tentatively Rejects Cutting Inmate Crowding at San Quentin
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2021-10-16 05:30
Marin County Judge Tentatively Rejects Cutting Inmate Crowding at San Quentin
SACRAMENTO (AP) — A superior court judge in Marin County tentatively ruled Friday that state prison officials acted with deliberate indifference when they caused a deadly coronavirus outbreak at San Quentin State Prison last year. But he said vaccines have since so changed the landscape that officials are no longer violating inmates' constitutional rights. The lawsuit stemmed from the botched transfer of infected inmates in May 2020 from a Southern California prison to San Quentin, which at the time had no infections.

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