Posted on 05/23/2011 9:54:13 PM PDT by Rabin
California's three-strikes law, which imposes mandatory 25-year minimums on three-time offenders, even if their crimes are nonviolent. "There are a lot of second-strikers who get their sentence doubled just because they've had another strike. So, instead of a burglary being five years, automatically it's 10," Specter said.
Severe overcrowding in state prisons has resulted in extreme suffering and death, a deprivation of the (American) rights violate the Constitution and the 1995 federal Prison Litigation Reform Act, as well.
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Raben
Prison nation.
Eventually you run out of other peoples money.
Great, now they get released into our neighborhoods-—I’ve already got one of those apes living next door. And California’s bankrupt government? All they want is more money-—they don’t give a damn about taxpayers!
Ok release 40,000 mexicans and send them home on a big ship.
They should follow Turkey’s prison system (at least when we were there). The prisoners were housed by the government but fed by those outside who cared to keep them alive.
You are correct sir. I think crime will go UP more than any of us want. I am almost sure I will leave the state as soon as I retire. There are other reasons too, but that is one of them.
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the USA denies Felons Constitutional Rights. Maybe a judge or 9 needs to go back to school or at least read what they are supposed to defend/interpret
You had better get out while you still can. I put bars on my windows and doors. I installed security cameras all the way around the property. The cops here are useless-—one even lives right across the street and he is oblivious to what goes on right in front of him on this street. This bankrupt state sucks! Youtube = Sewer Soon City Police Misconduct
I’m sure they’ve all learned their lesson and are now ready to become honest productive members of society. (choke..gag...spit..)
I have an idea. Why don’t they cut government staff? Those people are in jail for a reason.
I am just moving.
California has just become untenable — tax those who work hardest, subsidize those who work least, invite illegality in almost all forms (of course starting with illegal aliens), and now release criminals into the general populace.
More people in the cart than pulling it — and then allow highwaymen to rob those pulling the cart!
I think it’s all part of the process of discrediting the constitution.
By not enforcing it at all, whenever possible, when it benefits the average person, but enforcing to the letter, when it has a negative effect on the average person, the leftists are trying to create conditions where the average person is more then happy to get rid of such a document, becvause they’ve learned nothing good ever comes from the constitution.
Yes, the ruling was that insane.
We are in the final, shaking and spasming, death throes, as a country.
So move out.
It won't help.
Yes, the ruling was that insane.
We are in the final, shaking and spasming, death throes, as a country.
So move out.
It won't help.
>>It won’t help.<<
In the final analysis we can only help ourselves as individuals.
Thus, I must do what is in the best interests of my family — and that to go where the values are closer to mine.
But I understand what you say and I share your frustration.
But nope, nope, all the money for the prisons went to the pampered prison guard unions and their incredible pension programs. There was literally nothing left to explore any alternatives, not to mention an army of lawyers who troll up and down the state for some reason to sue the corrections system.
For twenty years virtually nothing was done, and now a third of the prisoner population is going to get released. Place your bets now as to how many prison guards are laid off because of this, or how much their salary is reduced from the smaller workload... RIGHT! NOTHING!
And there's no money for the state to transfer prisoners to county facilities, because between the teachers and the prison guards, there isn't a penny left.
I say a pox upon both houses - send the prison guards and the teachers to guard the prisoners in the middle of China Lake NAWS. Seriously, nothing can be done in this state until public union salaries and benefits are brought under control. And the only way that’ll happen is if the state is so deep in the red that no one would even consider loaning California any more money.
When your govt is on the edge of financial disaster, everything must be cut. Even prisons.
Time for us to ante up, buy ammo and start defending ourselves instead of depending on nanny government/lea agents to come save us from every boogeyman that peeks out from under a rock.
When the final, shaking death throes actually come, you'll eat these words.
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