Posted on 09/02/2009 3:35:34 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
SAN FRANCISCO --- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a federal court's order that the state reduce its prison population by 40,000 inmates, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
The appeal will be a dramatic escalation in the long-running legal battle over the state of California's overcrowded prisons and their often criticized medical care for inmates.
Schwarzenegger spokesman Aaron McLear said the appeal will be filed later this week, adding that cutting the state's inmate population of about 170,000 must be done methodically and by state officials.
"We don't believe it's right," McLear said, referring to the federal court order. "We need to reduce the prison population but we need to do so in a responsible way."
Schwarzenegger is pressing for state legislation to cut the number of prisoners in order to bring down spending on prisons, one of the state's top expenditures.
He backed a bill approved last month by the state Senate that would reduce the state's prison population with a number of measures, including releasing elderly and ailing inmates. But the Assembly passed a rival and less ambitious bill on Monday, raising doubts the two bills can be reconciled.
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They could go there and live out their days doing whatever they wished.
Free Sadie Mae Glutz?
It’s time to stick it to these communist judges.
Perhaps they could cut spending on social services for illegals and build more prisons instead.
The Joe Arpaio tent city idea is spot on, and interestingly, it is legal by international standards. That is, some years ago, there was an effort to establish what “human rights” exist in dwellings. But the nations with large armies insisted that “military field conditions” do *not* represent any violation of human rights.
This means that the only thing possibly preventing the State of California from doing so are liberal federal and State judges, who think it is up to them to decide what prison health and welfare standards should be.
But if the SCOTUS makes a clear ruling on the subject, then California should immediately construct a dozen or more very large, rural tent cities for inmates. They are far cheaper than brick prisons, can be put up in just a week or two, and can be put far out in the desert, only constrained by availability of water, power, and food.
“California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a federal court’s order that the state reduce its prison population by 40,000 inmates, a spokesman said on Tuesday.”
Maybe it’s time to create our own version of the Foreign Legion. We could use the troops overseas, and surely some of those 40k are of military age. Not to mention I’m sure more than a few of them have experience with shooting at other people.
/just kidding...sort of ;)
Send’em to Sheriff Joe! I wish we could clone that guy.
California prison guards start at $70,000 a year plus overtime.
Isn’t that special?!
However, I wouldn’t want to do it even for that or twice that. No way.
In most U.S. jurisdictions violent inmates are locked down most of the day. Most medium security inmates don't want to spend an extra minute in the pen if they can help it and act accordingly. I worked in medium security prisons in Tennessee and Colorado as a counselor. After a while it's like babysitting for a bunch of loud kids.
Bless you for doing that work, but all in all still good you can say it in the past tense. :-)
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