Obviously the good justice has never been deployed, where a hundred troops share a single working sh~!tter...
And I find that if there is no fear of punishment, then the entire society is “criminogenic”. The simple answer would be razor wire, tents, and porta-johns in the Mojave.
I remember that in a previous thread regarding judicial retention, that I suggested the idea of the public being allowed to vote out a sitting federal judge or a Supreme Court justice. Too bad we can't do that now.
They shouldn’t be incarcerating all those pot smokers anyway.
The riches in agriculture, technology, tourism, natural harbors and an embarrassment of other assets have been run into the ground through liberal policy and unchecked third world immigration.
If they're ever going to reclaim a functioning society, they ought to build enough prisons to hold 1 million people, and hope that removing the criminals from society will allow the law-abiding majority to be productive enough to support the incarceration of the lawless.
Uh, no...don't wanna do time? Don't do the crime.
I agree that prisons are overcrowded and that something must be done about it. What needs to be done is: build more prisons. Lots of ‘em. Criminals should never be let loose because of overcrowding.
Mexifornia in two years !
It honestly looks to me more like a problem with the California state government than the SCOTUS.
“In Plata v. Brown, filed in 2001, the State conceded that deficiencies in prison medical care violated prisoners’ Eighth Amendment rights and stipulated to a remedial injunction. But when the State had not complied with the injunction by 2005, the court appointed a Receiver to oversee remedial efforts. Three years later, the Receiver described continuing deficiencies caused by over-crowding. Believing that a remedy for unconstitutional medical and mental health care could not be achieved without reducing over-crowding, the Coleman and Plata plaintiffs moved their respective District Courts to convene a three-judge court empowered by the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PLRA) to order reductions in the prison population. The judges in both actions granted the re-quest, and the cases were consolidated before a single three-judge court. After hearing testimony and making extensive findings of fact, the court ordered California to reduce its prison population to 137.5% of design capacity within two years...
...The appeal presents the question whether the remedial order issued by the three-judge court is consistent with requirements and procedures set forth in a congressional statute, the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PLRA). 18 U. S. C. §3626; see Appendix A, infra. The order leaves the choice of means to reduce overcrowding to the discretion of state officials.”
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-1233.pdf
FWIW, the dissent starts at page 59.
This has been going on for 10 years, and California refused to spend the money to expand prisons - although I’d bet the salaries of prison guards increased more than inflation during that time.
I support putting people in prison, but I also support the idea of building prisons to hold them. Maybe if California spent less on unions and more on prisons, this would not have happened. Frankly, I would trust the judgment of a 3 judge panel more than I would a vote of the California legislature...
Simple solution. Take the 33000 most violent offenders (start with ALL illegals) and fast track their executions.
Overcrowding resolved.
Amazing...so who is making CA citizens safe and healthy from the Supreme Court?
I could see this becoming a major campaign issue:
These are the kind of decisions one can expect if Obama is allowed to name the next three justices!
Headline should read: “DEMOCRATES TO RELEASE 46,000 CRIMINALS”. Sub Head line “Only Criminals Allowed Guns”.
The only purpose of the courts is justice, meaning ensuring that crime is punished.
Letting convicts go prior to the end of their sentence is turning them loose on law-abiding citizens.
The judges who voted for this should be jailed themselves, as their verdict is contrary to their purpose as a judge and is a miscarriage of justice which hurts the innocent and rewards convicted criminals.
This is NOT A DISASTER, it is a Blessing in disguise. If I were Governor I would immediately offer Every Illegal Alien in our prison system a One Way ticket to Washington DC and throw in $200 for Living expenses if they Promise never to come back to California.
you folks left in the Golden State should buy them all one-way bus tickets to D.C.
Californians be smart arm yourselves as society will have an extremely difficult time protecting you from the muggers, rapists, drug dealers, thieves , etc that are about to be unleashed on your families. Where has common sense gone?? And Reagan appointed Kennedy.....he must be turning over in his grave.