[mvpel]

Time to buy a gun.

Yeah, no kidding! You should never turn your back on those check-bouncers, man, they're dangerous.

[The KG9 Kid]

The problem is that I expect that most of the early parolees are going to come from drug offenders. Civil libertarians may cheer this news, but they should also recognize that many felony offenders in prison for drugs in CA plea bargained down to the drug offenses because that's the only material evidence they were caught with.

They very likely could be violent criminals whom there was no-one willing to come forward as witnesses against their real crimes, so they plead out for the narcotics that were found on their person or their dwellings.

I wish I could link the several investigative stories from CA detailing the fact that the majority of prisoners serving time for narcotics were initially charged with more violent crimes but had the charges reduced for one reason or another to a felony drug count because that's all the CA county DAs were confident with clearing their overburdened caseloads with.

You'll be lucky if the released prisoners were just in the state prison for credit card and welfare fraud.

[Nachum]

Yeah, no kidding! You should never turn your back on those check-bouncers, man, they're dangerous

And do you trust the Gubanator's release plan of that many prisoners to only be "check-bouncers"?

[ctdonath2]

An awful lot of those officially incarcerated for “minor offenses” were charged with MAJOR offenses, and just plea-bargained down to make conviction easier. We’re not talking check-bouncers, we’re talking bank robbers with long rap sheets pleading guilty to check-bouncing just to work the system ... and now the “check bouncer” is on the street and will think nothing of cold-cocking you to take your wallet just to get started again.

[BurbankKarl]

check bouncers? you dont even go to trial in CA unless its your 2nd or 3rd felony.