Corrections secretaries, lawmakers and even governors have come and gone over the years, but attorneys Michael Bien and Donald Specter have remained fixtures in the legal fight to improve conditions for California prison inmates.
Their decades of work paid off last year when a three-judge panel ordered the state to reduce its inmate population by 40,000 over two years. Bien and Specter, co-lead counsel in the landmark case, prevailed in their argument that chronic prison overcrowding has deprived inmates of their constitutional rights to adequate medical and mental health care.
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