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The rights group also accused him of supervising the "cleansing" of overcrowded prisons by killing several thousand prisoners by shooting or torture.

The furore may have prompted California's lawmakers to scale back a plan to save money and ease the chronic overcrowding in the state's prisons by releasing some non-violent prisoners early.

In 2011, Kennedy sided with the four liberal justices to uphold a lower court ruling ordering California to reduce overcrowding in its prisons by releasing tens of thousands of prisoners.

But one of them, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, has prompted a wide-ranging examination of abuses in the country's prisons by publishing an open letter describing how prisoners are routinely overworked and kept in inhumane condition.

There are many innocent prisoners who have been buried alive in these prisons by this kind of corruption.

A three-judge panel has tentatively ordered California to reduce the population of its desperately overcrowded prisons by as much as one-third, or as many as 55,000 prisoners, over the next three years.

"How Gangs Took Over Prisons," by Graeme Wood, appears in the October issue of The Atlantic.

Encerrados: 10 years, 74 prisons, by Valerio Bispuri, is available from Contrasto Books.

The triple whammy inflicted on prisons by government policies means that they are dangerous, violent places.

And federal energy rules are pushing the goal of zero-net energy use in federal prisons by 2030.

Liz Truss has promised five new prisons by 2020, so far there is the hint of only one.