A board of US federal judges has ruled in favor of reducing California's prison population over 'appalling' conditions stemmed from the state's budget crisis.
The three-member judiciary body's decision to free around 43,000 captives held at 'nonstandard' detention facilities has been triggered by the California's sinking economy that suffers from a USD 26 billion budget deficit.
The panel drew upon Californian authorities' earlier statements in which the Golden State's reformatories were said to be in 'crisis.'
California Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, had also demanded a swift transformation of the correctional centers, saying that an "immediate action is necessary to prevent death and harm."
His recent budget plan for the current fiscal year also trims the resources allocated to penal complexes by around 1.2 billion dollars.
The panel of judges concluded that the situation in US prisons is "often dangerous, and on many occasions fatal."
The captives are due to be released in a time span of two years. The United States has the largest prison population in the world.
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