Since the determinate-sentencing system took effect three decades ago, California has added more than 1,000 laws and more than 100 other factors that can lengthen prison terms, said Carole D'Elia, who is leading a sentencing commission study for the government watchdog Little Hoover Commission.
"The system as it currently exists is so convoluted and frankly irrational that it's hard to know where to begin," said Kara Dansky, executive director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, which is conducting its own study. Both are scheduled to be completed next year.
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Maybe a few new laws will help...
Violent criminals? Stack 'em up like cord wood.
All the parolees should be sent to live within 500 feet of a lawyer or judge.
Or provide all those undocumented workers jobs building new prisons.
The State of Oaxaca would make a great penal facility for California's general population. Belize would be attractive for maximum security and lifetime folks.
LOL, just turn 'em loose. Who cares?
I think to end the overcrowding we need to make it a five-strike law, not three. Or ten strikes. Or twenty.
That way our prisons wouldn't be so overcrowded. That would solve the whole problem, right?
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¡Libertad!