Posted on 05/31/2008 1:54:42 PM PDT by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO—A federal court referee is recommending that California's prison population be cut by nearly 40,000 inmates over the next four years.
There is little agreement over how to accomplish that, leading a special judicial panel on Friday to grant more time for settlement talks.
The three-judge panel says it will set a trial in November if the state, inmate advocacy groups, law enforcement organizations and others fail to agree on ways to solve prison crowding. They have 30 days to reach a settlement.
The federal courts could order an immediate release of inmates or cap the prison population, actions the Schwarzenegger administration and others want to avoid.
The court-appointed referee who is trying to negotiate a settlement says the state's 170,000 inmates should be reduced to about 132,000 by the end of 2011.
Referee Elwood Lui is proposing the population be trimmed by diverting parole violators and some convicts serving short sentences into community treatment or alternative-punishment programs.
Attorneys for the state, counties and local law enforcement say they are not yet ready to accept his proposed settlement. Republican lawmakers also have raised objections.
Just out the pedophiles.
tattoo a Big P on their fore heads.
Electric Bleachers ?
Damn activist libs. Overturning three-strikes which was passed by the citizens of CA.
WTF ? ? ?
Can’t Kaliforkia even geta real judge instead of a “referee”?
Why do I ask? I ask because referee types are famous for saying “You’re out.”
Anyone out there thought of calling ALPO?
;-)
When I was a kid, judges used to sentence criminals to serve time in jail/prison. I guess now we’re just locking ‘em up without the “judges” knowing about it.
Courts: California must cut prison population by 40,000
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Easy. Just send them back to Mexico.
And Columbia, and El Salvador, and etc....
Will this release of that many criminals ease the gun laws for Kalifornica citizens or will only these 40,000 arm themselves?
Inside America's toughest jail (Brit paper says Sheriff Joe Arpaio's ideas would be great for U.K.)
Reduce the state employee population by the same number. Leave felons where they are.
Bring back the gas chamber!
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I believe you a confusing a jail system with a prison system.
Have them move into the judges homes...that should fix it.
Cal spends $12 billion a year in services to illegals and no one in Sacramento can decide what to do to cut spending.
Release them into the gated communities where these judges live?
Seriously, the best thing to do if the prisons are overcrowded is to keep building more. I dn’t LIKE the fact that warehousing recidivist criminals for most or all of their lives seems to be the best way to keep the public safe, but it’s a fact. Let’s build more.
Cheapest, Fastest and most gratifying solution..
OUTSOURCE THE CONVICTS - Prioritize outsourcing the illegal aliens who have been convicted and jailed for committing felonies in this country.
Pay some turd world banana republic to “house/feed” our prisoners at about $1 per day....
Why should WE pay $35,000 to incarcerate, medicate, educate and feed these bastards in a manner they have NEVER experienced?
OUTSOURCE them -— NOW.
If we can send American’s jobs to the Turd World, we should certainly be able to justify sending at least the illegal aliens criminals who make up >25% or our prison population.
"Confusion" was not a factor, it was merely a suggestion of a possible approach.
Why, pray tell, could a similar system not be adapted to prison populations?
Dang, you beat me to it!!!
Death row is turning into a hospice program. We put 20 or so in a year and average less than 1 execution per year. So that's overcrowded.
No consensus to build more prisons, but we want the bad guys locked up. Nothing done.
No leadership from within corrections and every governor turns the department director out. No nationwide talent hunt.
Most members of the public don't care what goes on inside as long as they don't escape.
Entire system under court mandate.
Largest mental health care system in the world and very little services. Most of these "patients" will be released onto the street.
I say nuclear option and start all over.
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