Supreme Court: California Must Release 46K Inmates

The court’s opinion, supported by the liberal justices, was written by Anthony Kennedy. It said the prisons were “short of minimum constitutional requirements,” leading to “needless suffering and death.” The result: More than a quarter of the state's prisoners will be released. In the dissenting opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia called the decision “staggering,” saying it “takes the federal courts wildly beyond their institutional capacity,” the Los Angeles Times reports.