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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unfortunately, since the Constitution is no longer taught in schools, most do not know the 13th Amendment. Excellent point.
Great, let thousands of prisoners out that are broke and in need of money into an innocent populace .... What could possibly go wrong?
You’re right! The greed of the unions is here for all to see.
And when they finally run out of our money to pay their fat pensions and salaries they will just blame us taxpayers.
It’s really quite amazing how they’ve ripped off this state.
I wonder what % of the prison population is illegal Mexican? I’m going to guess at least 40%.
Obama is a Muslim. Obama has always been a Muslim. Obama will always be a Muslim.
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