on behalf of all of us, john bridgeland. >> thank you so much, margaret. good to be with you. >> warner: thank you. >> woodruff: this is pledge week on public television. we'll be back in seven minutes with the latest on today's supreme court arguments. this short break allows your public television station to ask for your support. that support helps keep programs like ours on the air.se involvig overcrowded prisons in california. gwen ifill has the story. >> ifill: should california be required to move thousands of inmates out of the state's prisons to relieve drastic overcrowding? that was the question before the supreme court today. here are the underlying facts. california prisons currently house 144,000 inmates. in 2009 a three-judge panel ordered the state to reduce that number to 110,000 within two years. yet even if that goal is met, the system would still hold 30,000 more inmates than it is designed to. marcia coyle of the national law journal was at the court today for the arguments in this case. she joins us now. i guess two questions right off

on behalf of all of us, john bridgeland. >> thank you so much, margaret. good to be with you. >> warner: thank you. >> woodruff: this is pledge week on public television. we'll be back in seven minutes with the latest on today's supreme court arguments. this short break allows your public television station to ask for your support. that support helps keep programs like ours on the air. >> lehrer: for those stations not taking a pledge break, the newshour continues now with the challenges female veterans face after returning from war. it's part of our series "newshour connect," which showcases public media reporting from around the nation. tonight's story comes from scott schafer of kqed-san francisco. >> reporter: star laura grew up in new mexico and was on her way to managing a fast food restaurant but a conversation with a friend changed all that. >> do you want to join? all right. that's how i ended up in the army for 12 years. >> reporter: star joined the army in 1995 and eventually ended up in iraq. she's one of almost 200,000 women veterans in califo