Posted on 05/14/2009 9:30:23 AM PDT by SmithL
On Jan. 10, 2008, it was 22,000. This past New Year's Eve, it was 15,000. Two weeks ago Friday, it was 8,000.
Now, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration looking down the barrel again at a massive budget crisis is talking about letting 38,000 inmates out of prison before their time is up.
Proposals 1 and 2 never got off the ground when the governor's budget writers eventually found the money to keep the prisons full. More recently, the administration never followed up with legislation to enact the early releases corrections Secretary Matt Cate announced on April 24.
The latest early release proposal has some legislators thinking they've heard this story line before.
"It reminds me of the saying, it's déjà vu all over again," said Assemblyman Jose Solorio, D-Santa Ana, the chairman of the lower house's Public Safety Committee.
Unlike its past early release plans, the Schwarzenegger administration says it can commute prisoner sentences under the California Constitution "on conditions the governor deems proper" without buy-in from the Legislature.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
This is the way libs operate - the liberal governor of CA will release tens of thousands of criminals onto the streets so they can prey again on innocents.
Obama will release dozens of hardened terrorists onto the streets of America so they can kill innocents again. Recall it took only about a dozen terrorists to kill 3,000 people on 9/11.
What else will these kooks do to try to get us victimized or killed? (I already know the answer and it is already in movement - take away our guns so we are totally unprotected then)
he can, like all democrats, SELL FOR PROFIT the comutations.
want out? how much do you have?
If such an action were taken by complicit and corrupt semi criminal politicians here so as to impact my family & friends with thousands of convicted Felons, I would be openly calling for another revolution
Just like Thomas Jefferson would - and has.
what say you?
Unions and illegals are untouchable in California.
The state can burn to the ground and violent criminals can cause mayhem in the streets, but the state employees and the illegals must be catered to at all costs.
Disgusting.
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