- Guards patrol San Quentin's Death Row
Posted on 07/30/2008 11:17:43 AM PDT by SmithL
The cost of new housing for San Quentin State Prison's growing number of Death Row inmates will exceed estimates by nearly $40 million, and the compound could run out of space soon after it is completed, according to a state auditor's report released Tuesday.
The auditor's new $395.5 million price tag for the project, which is expected to be completed by 2011, is new bad news for a state facing billions of dollars in budget shortfalls. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democrat-controlled Legislature are still trying to hammer out a spending plan for the fiscal year that began nearly a month ago.
California's prison system is already a big-ticket item, representing about 10 percent of roughly $100 billion general fund spending. And with severe inmate overcrowding and claims of inadequate health care for prisoners, a federal receiver appointed by a judge in 2006 has asked the Legislature for an additional $7 billion to get the prison system to run adequately.
"This is a giant black hole," said Sen. Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, chairwoman of the Senate public safety committee. "It's a never-ending gravitational force that'll continue to suck away money that should be spent on local government, education, health and human services and higher education."
Seth Unger, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said the latest figures for the San Quentin project are estimates at best. He added that the report "does validate that California needs a newly constructed, modern facility to house our condemned inmate population."
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- Guards patrol San Quentin's Death Row
There's a very easy solution for that problem. Keep the permanent Death Row population at 10. One moves in...one moves out.
How many people do you want to live on death row?
What, oh what, could we possibly do to solve this problem? Such a puzzle, such a confounding conundrum. Oh, how I am bothered and bewildered...
The Guard’s union is one of the most powerful in the state. That has to cost.
They should be following the court judgement. Execute. Waiting on death row for 15 years is crazy.
Thats too funny. My dad said that 40 years ago. Just keep Whackin’ ‘em!
GET RID OF THE INVENTORY!
Only in the wacky world of the left does death mean life, waiting for death in relative comfort...
Condemned in California
1,152
Inmate capacity in planned new Death Row housing at San Quentin
674
Number of California’s condemned inmates
635
Death Row inmates at San Quentin State Prison
14
California inmates executed since death penalty reinstated in 1977
3
Years until new Death Row housing is expected to be completed
?
Source: Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
Euthanasia would be a cost effective means of bringing down the cost. It’s not like society would be better with these vermin around.
“”This is a giant black hole,” said Sen. Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, chairwoman of the Senate public safety committee.
That’s racist!!
...yep, that’s a choice of words that only a Democrat could get away with.
So execute their sentences already.
How many people has Calinfornia executed since the death penalty was reinstated? 13.... yet there are at least 667 inmates on death row.
In that same time period, 56 have died without being put to death. 14 by suicide (more than actually executed).
The problem is - capitol punishment is not utilized as it was designed. Cases almost always drag out for over a decade - through appeals, and activist intervention...
Something has to be done. The death penalty has little sting when the chances are better that you will die of old age or suicide before the state ever gets around to actually ending your life.
Well then kill the POS that are waiting to die. End the endless appeals and just kill them. Simple huh?
You will know that the liberal orgy is over in CA when they empty out that jail by executing the prisoners.
“This is a giant black hole,” said Sen. Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, chairwoman of the Senate public safety committee. “It’s a never-ending gravitational force that’ll continue to suck away money that should be spent on local government, education, health and human services and higher education.”
So what is she proposing to do about it? Let them go?
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