Alabama Senator Cam Ward investigates the numbers and possible consequences of the overcrowded jails and prisons, and realizes something needs to change, fast.  Thus they’ve set up a task force to decide how to get prison units back to manageable numbers.  Excessive inmate populations endanger not merely (!) inmates, but the security staff as well.  They are looking down the road, and they are seeing lawsuits similar to the ones in LA and CA.  Let’s hope the task force can read real fast, and make changes super fast, too.

http://blog.al.com/wire/2014/01/alabama_senate_approves_plan_t.html