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Article: Justice Department Files Statement Supporting Philadelphia Efforts to Remove Prison Population Cap
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- U.S. Newswire
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- April 23, 1992
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PHILADELPHIA, April 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Attorney General
William P. Barr today announced that the Department of Justice is
filing a statement of interest in support of the city of
Philadelphia's motion to modify two consent decrees which cap the
Philadelphia prison population.
The court-ordered cap currently bars the admission of some
criminal defendants and requires the release of others -- such as
muggers, burglars, car thieves, bank robbers and armed drug
dealers.
The Attorney General made the announcement at a ceremony
dedicating a new victims' assistance center in Philadelphia,
saying, "The cap has no basis in the Constitution; it is wrong as
a matter of law, of policy and of public ...