Décision étonnante de la Cour suprême qui s'explique par: "California provides inadequate medical care for its convicts -- care so poor as to violate the Constitution's ban on "cruel and unusual punishment." What's the main cause of this violation? According to the court, prison overcrowding. Thus, it has ordered California to reduce its prison population."
Le juge Antonin Scalia, qui s'est opposé à cette décision, a des réserves importantes sur le jugement: "But, as Scalia rightly observes, the majority disregarded the strict limitations of the governing statute (the Prison Litigation Reform Act) as well as "traditional constitutional limitations upon the power of a federal judge, in order to uphold the absurd."
Scalia points out that the court could certainly order the release of an individual prisoner if it found he was denied medical treatment, and release was the only remedy. But that isn't what occurred here.
The court is not ordering the release of prisoners who have received inadequate care. It's ordering the general release of thousands of prisoners who not only haven't suffered from any lack of medical care, but, as Scalia sardonically wrote, "will undoubtedly be fine physical specimens who have developed intimidating muscles pumping iron in the prison gym.""
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