Posted on 12/27/2002 10:09:10 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:30:06 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
SACRAMENTO - As California's budget woes have escalated, state prison officials quietly have been studying a range of options to save hundreds of millions of dollars, including releasing non-violent inmates, delaying the opening of a maximum security lockup and early discharge from parole, according to internal documents obtained by the Mercury News.
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Facing a $35 BILLION deficit, Davis is re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
Davis is pulling the same scam - release the "non-violent" prisoners now and maybe the really bad guys later, unless we have a desperately needed tax increase.
The democrats can't help themselves - they shovel cash out the door as fast as they can to stay in power. That's the whole story IMO.
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