It’s become a bastion of wayward desperate souls seeking another chance, dumped backed into a hellhole by the same system that created them.
John Eastman, who is running for Atty. general in California has something to say about this.
John Eastman on the State’s Prison System and Pledge to Defend Californians’ Right to Security
April 2nd, 2010
What a surprise. The Associated Press is reporting here that our Legislature’s early release program, prodded by intrusive federal court orders, is resulting in the release of violent felons back onto our streets and into our neighborhoods. And here’s another “out-on-the-limb” prediction—the budget savings of $1 Billion, claimed by both Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democrat Assembly Speaker Karen Bass at the time the early release program was passed by the Legislature, will never materialize. Because most of the costs of running our state prison system are salaries for the prison guards, reducing the prison population would not result in much of a savings, unless the Legislature was also planning to lay off prison guards, a dangerous move since California’s ratio of prisoners to prison guards is already too high. Moreover, those erroneous estimates did not include the costs associated with the predictable increases in crime that will surely flow from releasing violent felons back onto the streets.
Of course, only so much blame belongs with the Legislature. The fact is, this would not have happened but for erroneous legal rulings issued by a three-judge federal court bent on becoming the overseers of our state prison system, over the tepid opposition of both our current Attorney General, Democrat Jerry Brown, and his Democrat predecessor, Bill Lockyer. They have not even bothered to appeal these overreaching judicial decisions. We need an Attorney General who will vigorously oppose the federal court takeover of our prison system and defend the security of law-abiding citizens of this State.
http://www.eastmanforag.com/news/john-eastman-on-californiase