By skin color. The lighter skinned you are, the longer you wait.
Don't need to wait for the pic, I've added it below myself.
Posted on 05/23/2011 10:10:18 AM PDT by library user
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ordered California on Monday to release tens of thousands of its prisoners to relieve overcrowding, saying that "needless suffering and death" had resulted from putting too many inmates into facilities that cannot hold them in decent conditions.
It is one of the largest prison release orders in the nation's history, and it sharply split the high court.
Justices upheld an order from a three-judge panel in California that called for releasing 38,000 to 46,000 prisoners. Since then, the state has transferred about 9,000 state inmates to county jails. As a result, the total prison population is now about 32,000 more than the capacity limit set by the panel.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, speaking for the majority, said California's prisons had "fallen short of minimum constitutional requirements" because of overcrowding. As many as 200 prisoners may live in gymnasium, he said, and as many as 54 prisoners share a single toilet.
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More 0bama voters.
Maybe less laws would help.
I’ll cross my fingers that what happens in California, stays in California.
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Government could spend to create jobs building new jails so the prison guard union could add more members and conservatives would be happy to see criminals serve out their sentences.
Seems to me that both sides would get something out of it but I guess it is a California thing.
Wondering how they will prioritize the list for release.
Dopers.
Then non violent second offenders.
I hope, anyway.
Needless suffering and death will be the result of this decision! And it won't be the death of the inmates either - it'll be innocents who pay the price. Idiotic. Completely idiotic.
By skin color. The lighter skinned you are, the longer you wait.
Don't need to wait for the pic, I've added it below myself.
Okay, who’s gonna watch these people?....................
This seems like a pretty awful decision. Still California has had over crowding problems for quite some time now. Sounds like they are going to have to bite the bullet and build more prisons. They’ll just have to cut some of their wasteful social programs to actually keep people locked up.
“........saying that “needless suffering and death....”
So then, it is the opinion of the high court that the “needless suffering and death” should be moved into our neighborhoods.
Such a release in absolutely insane.
LMAO!!
They’ll be returning to the same Ubama-voting neighborhoods they came from.
Good luck to those people.
“as many as 54 prisoners share a single toilet.”
I do not see prisoner release as a solution but this is not reasonable.
The state can install a few hundred toilets. They don’t have to be deluxe.
How many of those in the California prison system are illegals? I propose they start by deporting ALL of them FIRST. That should cut the number down considerably!
“Okay, who’s gonna watch these people?”
Nobody, but the system will pretend they are.
Freak out much??
OMG a check kiter moved in next to me!!! What next a guy who got caught with a small amount of maryjane!??!!
Or execute them. they're illegal alien invaders. they can be shot as spies.
For the rest all it takes is a couple tent cities and a semi load of pink underwear. Problem solved.
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