Wow, just wow.
Is this the job of the Supreme Court? I think not.
And the SC should be held liable if any of those released cause harm to any person. The truth is that those in the prison system don’t get better they get worse while incarcerated. Shame on the SC.
Apparently, the SOTUS doesn’t give a damn about the law abiding citizens of CA. Is the SOTUS going to defend the citizens of CA from these thugs or release them in DC to walk among the thugs in DC?
More destruction from the Elitist political class!
This is an example of Cloward–Piven strategy
of slow motion Anarchy by the SCOTUS.
It’s clearly a bad decision, but California could just build more prisons which would solve the problem. Unfortunately, now the Supreme Court has set a precedent and courts all over the nation will now be in the business of determining what “overcrowding” is instead of the voters. This will spark a flurry of lawsuits since many prison systems are overcrowded. The choice at this point for states is either build more prisons or let more criminals go.
I hope this isn’t an indication of how Kennedy would vote on Obamacare.
They want a disruption of society...to bring it down. What better way than to release over 30,000 prisoners onto the mainly unarmed citizens. Insanity or intentional?
almost makes you want to give every newly paroled hood in Cal-ee-fohr-nya a bus ticket and a card with Anthony Kennedy’s home address...almost.....
The problem all stems from California’s spending, and refusal to deal with the illegal immigration problem.
California could afford more prisons, were it not for our jacked up spending priorities. Rather than deport the prisoners back to Mexico where they’ll be back in a week committing more crimes, we need to make the overall welfare and business climate unfavorable to illegals. This will cut down on the drain on state resources, and ‘drain the swamp’ of elements where crime can flourish or grow.
We can also revise what we put people in jail for, loosen up CA’s ridiculous gun laws to easy issue of CCW permits, and slash spending anywhere the unions are involved.
While the end result of people being let out of prison on a technicality hurts, it’s the right thing to do in the face of California’s horrible mismanagement of the situation. If we are going to put people in prison, we need to treat them humanely. The Supreme Court is right to uphold basic human rights, even for prisoners. CA can more than afford to do this right if we so desired, but our leaders are suicidally bent on liberal spending boondoggles that are bankrupting us.
Then charge Mexico for the housing of all their illegals in our prisons! What the hell is the problem here? They got oil. They got money. Take it from them until they learn to keep their own on their side.
Ginsberg, Soda Jerk, Kagen, Breyer, joined by Kennedy.
Presidents do shape our future.
The national impact should be interesting. These mistreated potential liberal voters are mobile, gang indoctrinated, convicted felons. The operative word being mobile, as in not physically restricted to a single state or jurisdiction upon release.
No wonder the wolves of left are screaming for more restrictions on the prey species.
Wouldn’t it be better to solve the problem of better health care, perhaps calling on the medical profession for help and advice, than to simply remove these people from the prisons?
They could work out a plan to provide medical care and facilities outside of the prison walls.
Where will they get health care on the outside if not in the established medical facilties and programs for the indigent?
Forget the Mexico border fence. We need a fence around California - and quickly.
I was really mad about this yesterday, but the more I thought about it, the more I thought there might be some good from this. Those 46,000 thugs aren’t going to go to Beverly Hills. They will, for the most part, return to areas that vote Democrat. There are naturally occurring consequences to stupid decisions and behaviors. For many years, the Republicans have had to come in and clean up after the Democrats like parents cleaning up after a drunken teenage party. This has enabled the Democrats to continue on in their dysfunctional ways while they blame everything on the Republicans. Now, when a tsunami of crime hits the Democrat voting areas, they can all thank Jerry Brown and Nancy and Barbara and...
They should follow sherif Joe’s solution and create “tent cities” in the Mojave Desert to house inmates. It is cheap and it has worked for us in Phoenix. Nobody wants to go back twice.
Prison guards union may fight it because for every 45 prisoners released one guard gets terminated.
If I were head of that state I’d tell the Supremes to come open the gates themselves. Our citizens have enough trouble and don’t need 40000 felons turned loose.. Doesn’t anyone have any cohones left...
Being that the Federal Bureau of Prisons does not break down or have a category for “undocumented migrant workers” I doubt that anyone can give an accurate or true answer. But please let me explain those given percentages of “25-30%” and “at least 30 percent”. (in part)
‘Quick Facts About the Bureau of Prisons” {my added parenthesizes}
“Inmate Population
Total population: 209,360
Total sentenced population: 190,571
Inmates in BOP facilities: 172,530
Inmates in privately-managed secure facilities {1}: 22,665
Inmates in other contract facilities {2}: 14,165
1 Includes inmates housed in privately-managed secure facilities under contract with the BOP or with a state or local government that has an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with the BOP.
2 Includes inmates housed in community corrections centers, home confinement, jail/short-term detention, contract juveniles, and long-term boarders.
“Inmate Breakdown”
Inmates By Security Level
Minimum: 17.3 % Low: 38.0 % Medium: 29.3 % High: 11.0 % Unclassified1: 4.2 %
Inmates By Gender
Male: 195,899 (93.6 %)
Female: 13,461 (6.4 %)
Inmates By Race
White: 120,991 (57.8 %)
Black: 81,048 (38.7 %)
Native American: 3,766 (1.8 %)
Asian: 3,555 (1.7 %)
Ethnicity
Hispanic: 69,055 (33.0 %)
Inmate Age
Average Inmate Age: 39
Citizenship
United States: 154,769 (73.9 %)
Mexico: 36,610 (17.5 %)
Colombia: 2,602 (1.2 %)
Cuba: 1,754 (0.8 %)
Dominican Republic: 2,562 (1.2 %)
Other/Unknown: 11,063 (5.3 %)
1 These inmates have not yet been assigned a security level.
http://www.bop.gov/news/quick.jsp#2
http://www.bop.gov/news/weekly_report.js…;