High court to Calif: Cut prison inmates by 30,000

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Mon­day nar­rowly endorsed reduc­ing California’s cramped prison pop­u­la­tion by more than 30,000 inmates to fix some­times deadly prob­lems in med­ical care, rul­ing that fed­eral judges retain enor­mous power to over­see trou­bled state prisons.