poor little old murderers, thugs, and thieves. Those juries and judges didn't really mean to keep you incarcerated if you got sick. That's no fair
We need to keep criminals behind bars, even better would be to put them in tent cities with no color cable TV.
They present little to no threat to public safety, precisely because they are put away for life!
The ironical thang to these writers is that these inmates don't want to leave at this point.
That's good news. When I reach the age when I will need nursing care, I will visit California and commit a serious crime.
I could care less about their suffering, and in the mood I'm in after reading this drivel the criminals should thank God I'm not in charge of their care.
Maybe my dad can rob a bank and live the good life.
Granted not all who are aging and sick and dying would have received the death penalty but a fair number who would have are now costing us $$$ as they lay dying
This is what happens when you don't execute criminals. Life without parole means life, and sometimes it's a long one.
Wonder where the feeble and the dying will receive their medical care following compassionate release, so that California taxpayers are spared those spiraling costs?
This writer doesn't seem to want to take his article pass the walls of the correctional system.
The unexamined assumption is that if these people were "freed" from prison they would not be a burden on the public. Clearly, they'd just be moved from the prison wing of the hospital to the "charity" wing.
Note carefully that the cost of $70,000 per year is not compared to the cost of releasing them and having them go out on the street - and wind up on Medicaid, likely in a nursing home anyway. The bottom line - minimal added cost to taxpayers by keeping them in jail.
This is a standard technique of the MSM. They present only half of the story.
Furthermore - who's to say who's indigent and who's a threat - it's a VERY subjective determination. As long as I'm able to see felons on their deathbed still in jail, then I know we're erring on the safe side.
By the way, nice air conditioner units on those cells.
“The state should also consider granting 'compassionate release' to feeble or dying inmates who have already served the fixed portions of their sentence, and are eligible for parole.”
Compassionate release to the feeble and dying? In what alley do they plan to dump them? If the author of this article is talking about compassion, it is compassion to give them medical care until the last rather than turning them out onto the street.
Although the author did not say this, is he thinking of transferring them to a “civilian care” facility? If so, then I will forgive the author.
I took the tour of that facility when applying for a job there a fews years back. Seemed like it was pretty well run, with good care given. Of course it's not state of the art, but to me it beat your average resthome. I just did not want to work all the overtime that was then and I understand still is, required.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
What is the answer to this huge problem? Yawn...
Most of the ones mentioned are not a threat to others. The question that remains for me is which is cheaper treatment on the street paid by MediCal or inside paid by the Dept. of Corrections. As these people get older they will need more and more skilled nursing care.
Precisely why he should remain in jail, dumbass.
I don't wish ill upon anybody, but I really hope that the rapists and murderers whom he wishes to "set free" will visit his house before mine.
Then he may be singing a slightly different tune.
If he has not stopped using drugs after 50 years, why should we think letting him loose for drug treatment now would change anything?
Wait a minute here. The libs were the ones who pushed "life without parole" as an alternative to the death penalty. And how many times have we heard that death row is more expensive than imprisoning people for life? It seems like that is no longer the case.