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Prisons: Power nobody dares mess with (California & CCPOA)
Sac Bee ^
| 2/29/04
| Daniel Macallair
Posted on 02/29/2004 9:24:58 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/12/2004 6:06:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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The California state prison system provides a poignant example of how a government agency became dominated by a special interest.
Over the past 20 years, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) has held the state's correctional system in an ever-tightening grip. The union's control of state criminal justice policy has produced mismanagement and abuse that waste tax dollars and compromise the public interest.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: calgov2002; california; dares; messwith; nobody; power; prisons
Daniel Macallair is the executive director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice in San Francisco and teaches in the Criminal Justice Department at San Francisco State University. This article is based on research by the center with funding from the Greenville Foundation and Open Society Institute. More information about the California Correctional Peace Officers Association is available at www.cjcj.org.
To: *calgov2002; california
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posted on
02/29/2004 9:26:38 AM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi Mac ... Support Our Troops! ... NO NO NO NO on Props 55-58)
To: NormsRevenge
However, as the pool of defendants sentenced from the local courts declined, the prison population was maintained by increasing the number of technical parole violations. In the past five years, the number of inmates returned to prison for a non-criminal parole violation has increased from 43 percent to 56 percent. For these violations, inmates are returned to prison for an average of five months without any additional rehabilitative services before again returning to the community. Ain't it just like the Slave Party to please the public employee unions by throwing the poor into prisons while STILL expecting their votes? When will the GOP ever learn how to wield this kind of political opportunity?
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posted on
02/29/2004 9:58:55 AM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(And the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.)
To: NormsRevenge
People directly on the government payroll should be prohibited from voting, because it's a massive conflict of interest.
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posted on
02/29/2004 10:50:37 AM PST
by
coloradan
(Hence, etc.)
To: NormsRevenge; Carry_Okie; forester; sasquatch; B4Ranch; SierraWasp; hedgetrimmer; knews_hound; ...
Short list and Sacramento Area ping list.
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posted on
02/29/2004 1:26:35 PM PST
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: NormsRevenge
Pelican Bay, San Quentin, and LA County Jail BUMP (LOL)
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posted on
02/29/2004 1:29:20 PM PST
by
ServesURight
(FReecerely Yours,)
To: farmfriend
BTTT!!!!!!!
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posted on
02/29/2004 1:56:39 PM PST
by
E.G.C.
To: farmfriend
With these alliances in place, the CCPOA was positioned to vigorously pursue its prison expansion agenda through harsher sentencing legislation. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s CCPOA-sponsored legislation was successful more than 80 percent of the time.The best money that government can buy-again. I'm torn between locking-up the perpetual, lying, recidivist criminal as opposed to just hiring them in the first place.
Excuse me now while I go calculate what my fair share of taxes are due this state.
To: budwiesest
Can I just say....
GRRRRRRRRRRRRR.....
I guess it is appropriate, you break the law, you go to the union shop...oops, I mean prison, and hang with the REST of the crooks.
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posted on
03/01/2004 10:38:16 AM PST
by
TatooChick
(Praise the Lord...and pass the ammunition (Remember, Vote NO on 55,56,57,58!))
To: TatooChick
Looked at your tag line (I realize this has nothing to do with this thread) and gotta tell 'ya, when Feinstein appeared on television humping for props 57 and 58 I was knocked off of the fence, so to speak. I've learned to respectfully hate the gun-grabbing b*tch that much.
$15B is a lot of cash, but if that's what it takes in cuts to balance the budget, so be it. Bring on the erasers, boys! Putting Feinstein's face on in support of these props was it for me.
Heck, maybe a few prisons will have to close, or the poor bastids will have to limit their 'overtime' gouging. In short, I no longer care. Screw them and the politician-buying horse they rode in on.
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posted on
03/01/2004 2:18:45 PM PST
by
budwiesest
(Until real statesmen rise to represent us in the Senate, .................nah!)
To: budwiesest
Screw them and the politician-buying horse they rode in on. Might I add...Vote Kaloogian and then Screw them and the politician-buying horse they rode in on.
Thank you and Goodnight!
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posted on
03/01/2004 2:32:49 PM PST
by
TatooChick
(Praise the Lord...and pass the ammunition Vote NO on 55,56,57,58!)
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