“as many as 54 prisoners share a single toilet.”
I do not see prisoner release as a solution but this is not reasonable.
The state can install a few hundred toilets. They don’t have to be deluxe.
Porta-Johns in the prison yard would work...that and a pee can in the cell, and everything's good to go.
What is OVERcrowding, anyway?!?! Until the number of inmates = the number of beds, I'd say that the prisons are underutilized. Simple crowding begins when inmates > beds. Even then, you could sleep 'em in shifts to relieve the crowding.
Since when is a limit of 26 minutes on the pot per day “cruel and unusual punishment” or some such?