Now that the most pro-criminal judicial panel in American history has ordered the state to reduce its prison population due to overcrowding, some prisoners have apparently decided to require further reductions by further reducing capacity. A 1,300-man unit of the prison in Chino, California has been shut down following a prison riot. (Chino is in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles.) Joe Mozingo and Margot Roosevelt have this story in the LA Times.

The riot had a racial aspect to it, "touched off by fighting among Latino and African American prisoners," leading to speculation that the Supreme Court decision in Johnson v. California, 543 U.S. 499 (2005) was a contributing cause. Doug Berman has this post at SL&P.