Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $34,188
42%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 42%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: prisoncrowding

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • California governor calls for $11 bln prison reform

    12/21/2006 8:51:36 PM PST · by Prost1 · 15 replies · 409+ views
    Reuters ^ | Dec 21 200\6 | By Leonard Anderson
    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday proposed an $11 billion plan to repair and expand California's troubled prison system. The Republican governor called for a 78,000-bed expansion of state prison and jail capacity to ease overcrowding, changes in the parole system to reduce the high rate of recidivism, and formation of a commission to propose revisions to California's criminal sentences. The proposal would be backed partially by $10.6 billion in bonds.
  • More than 2 dozen admit working illegally

    11/05/2004 1:03:01 PM PST · by thegreatbeast · 9 replies · 527+ views
    mcall.com ^ | November 4, 2004 | Tyra Braden
    Hands gripping one another's shoulders, a small group of illegal immigrants shackled at the ankles shuffled down a hallway at the Northampton County Courthouse on Wednesday. Moments after they were seated in a courtroom, deputy sheriffs herded more shackled men into the room. ''We ran out of shackles,'' Sheriff Jeffrey Hawbecker said as he watched a third group of men — these linked only by handcuffs — make its way down the hall. ''We'll order more handcuffs and shackles tomorrow, in case this happens again.'' The more than two dozen men had been held in the county prison in Easton...