Hey!  Wake up, California!  Your need to imprison everyone has reached epidemic proportions, and now the consequences have epic proportions as well.  Of course.  Smashing 3-tier bunks side by side in jails and prisons creates a germ factory.  Germs fly between those stacked bunks, and inmates get sick.  Some were already sick.  They get sicker and die.  Release the low-level offenders.  Release the very old and ill.  Stop mass incarceration and these senseless deaths.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/05/01/3432797/as-californias-overcrowding-problem-bleeds-into-jails-even-inmates-awaiting-trial-face-medical-neglect/