Posted on 08/19/2012 12:55:14 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
California officials, under U.S. Supreme Court orders to lower the population of its crowded prisons by 33,000 to bring a shoddy health care system up to constitutional standards, say they can't comply and shouldn't have to.
In a filing late Friday with a three-judge federal panel in San Francisco, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said it can provide adequate medical care at higher population levels - about 6,000 higher - than the Supreme Court required in its May 2011 ruling.
Department officials rejected the three-judge court's suggestion that the state could comply with the population standards by releasing some prisoners early without endangering the public. Those possibilities would include granting inmates greater sentence reductions for good behavior and expanding Gov. Jerry Brown's realignment program, which has moved low-level felons from prisons to county jails.
"The Supreme Court did not authorize the early release of prisoners," state lawyers told the court. Continued enforcement of the requirement to reduce the inmate population to 112,000 by next June, they argued, "will come at a significant, and legally unnecessary, cost to the state" and also "interferes with the state's democratic processes."
......Last year, the Supreme Court upheld the panel's conclusion that overcrowding in a prison system that held almost twice its designed capacity was the main cause of poor health care. The court ordered the population lowered to 137.5 percent of capacity by June 2013.
......If that target stands, state lawyers said, California's only recourse would be to cancel plans to return about 5,000 inmates from prisons in other states, where they have been temporarily transferred. That would help lower the population to 112,000 by December 2013, they said, at a cost of more than $300 million to the state, while keeping the inmates separated from their families.
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How many illegal aliens?
has nothing to do with it.
It’s a system and an industry.
The whole thing is a scam. Even I was sucked into the 3 strikes law and it hosed the lives of losers who do nothing more than steal loaves of bread.
KahLeeFawnEeeYah is a Socialist/Marxist Apparatchik Territory.
Sancuary Cities. Nice, huh?
It has EVERYTHING to do with it.
Nice to know that American citizens that help lock up some of these 33,000 prisoners will be on the streets looking for them and thier families. Now if we can only take away everyones guns we would have a much safer society. sick people in positions of power, dangerous for the law abiding citizenry. Lets see 2264 officers and a release of 33,000 inmates...........sounds about even
2264 sf, about 1900 los angeles as per interview with Bratton on friday. 33,000 Still a problem
It’s all about the prison guard’s union.
I am also impressed no one on this thread has been bashing the men and women in jail. They screwed up, but deserve humane living conditions.
Refurb and reopen Alcatraz as a supermax. Lifers and death row only (yea, believe it or not, Kalifornia has the death penalty, currently suspended while they work out the price of rope).
Perfect finger-poke in the eye to one of the Libtard capitals of the world.
“The whole thing is a scam. Even I was sucked into the 3 strikes law and it hosed the lives of losers who do nothing more than steal loaves of bread.”
It also put away felons that otherwise were getting a free pass out of jail thanks to liberal judges.
...and NO ONE got their lives hosed JUST for stealing break, one must look at what they did prior. It was a media trick.
Pretty simple answer.....
1. Execute those currently sitting forever on death row.
(Why keep Charlie Manson around be on death row or not?)
2. Deport ALL illegals (eliminates the supply line of future prisoners)
“Pretty simple answer.....
1. Execute those currently sitting forever on death row.
(Why keep Charlie Manson around be on death row or not?)
2. Deport ALL illegals (eliminates the supply line of future prisoners)”
You’re right - there are easy answers. But there are MANY, MANY, otherwise conservative people that object to both. They don’t trust “the system” to execute the proper people, and they make (or save) a bunch of money using Illegals.
We have to get our own house in order first.
My goodness! You probably think that being beaten, raped, even murdered shouldn't be a part of their sentence either.
(Neither do I.)
There is a real problem with releasing non violent offenders, what do you do with them once they are out? There are no jobs for them.
The prison system as it currently exist is a giant waste of human capital. Once released most of them don't function well in society simply because they have become institutionalized, heck even the guards and staff take on a institutionalized mindset.
People commit crimes , make mistakes and go to prison. Prison is punishment, it should be, it should be a life altering experience. It should not though be a farm system that just recycles criminals.
I don't know what the answer is but I do know the current prison industry is not working.
I have an idea.....why don’t they go ask Sheriff Joe how to expand their facilities?
Tents...if they are good enough for our military they are more than right for criminals. Pink underwear and bologna sandwiches too.
Oh, I forgot...this is in California where the coddle criminals.
The sad thing is that California’s recidivism rate is 65.1% within three years after release. Why wouldn’t the prison industry be happy with that?
Freegards
The prison guard union (CCPOA) is a vicious, hungry monster. Any politician (either party) who refuses to feed it is "soft on crime" and must be defeated.
Problem:overcrowding in a prison system that held almost twice its designed capacity.
Answer:Tent city like Arizona did.
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