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
cry me a liberal river
---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. Continuing to incarcerate them, even in model programs like those at Vacaville, amounts to unnecessarily cruel punishment and disregards the spiraling costs being inflicted on California taxpayers. ---
Where else would they go? Are we going to put them up in condos down by the local county hospital? Or do we just let them out on the streets of San Francisco? Brainless liberal do-goodism at it's finest.