Posted on 07/21/2009 5:55:54 PM PDT by Nachum
Reporting from Sacramento -- The state budget deal negotiated by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders would reduce the population of California prisons by nearly 27,000 inmates in the current fiscal year.
That would be done with a combination of new measures, including allowing some inmates to finish their sentences on home detention, creating new incentives for completion of rehabilitation programs and scaling back parole supervision for the least serious offenders.
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CA: Mexico II
A new jingle in legalese: Innocent by reason of budget cuts.
I would only support this for people incarcerated for “drug offenses.”
If you sent 80% of them back to their country of origin on buses, we’d save in a LOT of ways...
Fear tactics via government propaganda.Arming the citizens is the answer.
as long as they stay in CA....
Just make everything legal; rape, murder, robbery, burglary, assault...That’s how FL solved their roach problem, just started calling them palmetto bugs.
Absotively. A gun used in a defensive act could put some of the more violent perps in the morgue rather than a guaranteed three-hots-and-a-cot rebar motel.
Any wonder why gun manufacturers are having a hard time keep stock on the shelves? How about ammo?
The policy of keeping the 2nd ammendment "down" has led us to a society where vicitimology and thugology have been raised to an art form. We should be building more morgues, not prisons.
As to non-violent criminals, well, we should separate drug users from punks who don't respect other people's property. In the first case, let them go with a warning, in the latter, make 'em work it off to pay the victim.
Coming soon to a schoolyard near you.
Could you expound on this? It would seem that it matters not whether the State makes any of these acts 'illegal' if the people are prepared to defend themselves against such acts (which are clearly acts of harm for which little defense exists).
if they weren’t dangerous enough to keep in a cage, what were they doing there in the first place?
If none of these acts are illegal then no bad guys will be arrested and sent to jail. Defending yourself from attack would, of course, be illegal but will end up with a smaller population of productive citizens who can be easily extorted through the legal system.
“If you sent 80% of them back to their country of origin on buses, wed save in a LOT of ways.”
BINGO!
DEPORT THE INCARCERATED ILLEGAL ALIENS...AFTER THE BORDER IS SECURED!
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Information on Certain Illegal Aliens Arrested in the United States
U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
May 9, 2005
“population of aliens that entered the country illegally and were incarcerated in federal or state prisons or local jails: 55,322...arrested at least a total of 459,614 times”
“58 percent of all arrests occurred in California”
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-05-646R
Impacts Of Illegal Immigration: Crime
http://www.usillegalaliens.com/impacts_of_illegal_immigration_crime.html
In 1980, our Federal and state facilities held fewer than 9,000 criminal aliens but at the end of 2003, approximately 267,000 illegal aliens were incarcerated in U.S. correctional facilities, as follows
46,000 in Federal prisons
74,000 in state prisons
147,000 in local jails
Secure BOTH borders and Voila! The prison problems across America are solved...including the HUGE ASTRONOMICAL COSTS of $22K each. And instantly, we have 267K available beds for AMERICAN FELONS!
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