Posted on 02/03/2007 9:19:04 PM PST by NormsRevenge
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Friday that his administration would forcibly shift thousands of inmates to out-of-state prisons because only a few hundred had volunteered to leave.
The governor's decision escalates the pressure to overhaul a corrections system that officials say will be out of space by summer. A federal judge has given the state until June to relieve the crowding or face a possible cap on admissions.
"The safety of our correctional officers is threatened, we have the highest recidivism rate in the country because there is no room for rehabilitation, and we face the possibility of court-ordered early release of felons," Schwarzenegger said in a statement.
Between 5,000 and 7,000 inmates will be forcibly moved, said Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary James Tilton. The first to go will be inmates scheduled for deportation after they've served their sentences and those who get few visitors.
Tilton said 380 inmates have been voluntarily moved to private prisons in Arizona and Tennessee and 300 additional volunteers are being screened. He said his department is negotiating with prisons elsewhere for the involuntary transfers.
California's prisons contain 172,000 inmates, far more than their intended capacity.
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Of course there is NO plan to build more prisons...
First its energy, now its prisoners.
Are the other states getting tired of picking up after California?
A proposal to borrow 11 billion more dollars in bonds to build new prisons and handle 78,000 more prisoners have been floated by the Gub but face a tough road in the state legislature.
The old saying 'Cheaper by the Dozen' doesn't apply here, unfortunately.
They should ship them all the way back south of the Rio Grande where many of them belong..
prisons would be an ideal job export!
si!
i say, build prisons literally on the mexican border, with one gate into the u.s. and one into mexico.
you need the u.s. entrance for the convenience of lawyers and families.
security at the mexican gate could be lax--if they escape, so wha'?
Are the other states getting tired of picking up after California?
Um, it's not like they're not getting PAID, and I'd bet they're getting PAID more than the prisoners cost them.
Seems to me that other states are living off California in this instance.
Agreed, but they'd just swim right back.
Since 40% of California prisoners are illegal immigrants, why not start a chain gang to build a wall?
The percentage is high, but not quite that high.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Uh. Obviously, conditions aren't that bad.
A more accurate perspective would have been:
Since 80% of California prisoners are a consequence of illegal immigrantion since 1980,
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