In the 2011 case of Brown v. Plata, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that California's degraded prison conditions led to "needless suffering and death."
The ruling upheld an order by three federal judges forcing state officials to significantly reduce the prison population by more than 30,000 inmates within two years.

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In Brown v. Plata (2011), the U.S. Supreme Court indeed upheld the decision that California's prison overcrowding constituted cruel and unusual punishment, leading to "needless suffering and death," and mandated the state to reduce its prison population by more than 30,000 inmates to alleviate these conditions.

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