California told to prepare massive prisoner release

Reuters ^ | August 4, 2009

[Free ThinkerNY]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. judges on Tuesday told California to prepare to release more than 40,000 of its 150,000 inmates to reduce overcrowding in state prisons, which suffer from massive healthcare problems.

The cash-strapped state already plans to release ailing and short-term inmates for budget issues. That would clear up to 37,000 beds over two years, estimated California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary Matthew Cate.

But he said an order from federal judges would set a "dangerous precedent" and argued at a news conference that California had cleaned up prisons and hired medical professionals to fill chronic gaps that had left prisoners without adequate physical or mental care.

[dominic flandry]

Release them at the federal courthouse where these judges have their offices.

[Petronski]

California’s releasing their massive prisoners?

[TaMoDee]

Why? Goode Olde Charlie should be be appointed to a Federal
Judgeship. He’d fit right in!

[eeriegeno]

U.S. judges on Tuesday told California to prepare to release more than 40,000 of its 150,000 inmates to reduce overcrowding in state prisons, which suffer from massive healthcare problems.

Good idea! Send them to Michigan so they can join the Gitmo crowd?

[Las Vegas Ron]

What is that, page three or four of the playbook?

[lowbridge]

bump

[calljack]

the state of Kalifornia is not in charge of it’s prison system.

Arnold gave control to the federal government a few years ago.

[television is just wrong]

or Richard Ramirez.

[bareford101]

Ca. needs to buy them bus tickets to DC... I understand that there are very understanding people there who will take care of them through community action programs, and if it so happens that some of them haven’t been rehabilitated? well, that’s the way it goes in DC.

[SoldierDad]

And ammo is nearly impossible to find in CA.

[Soothesayer]

That’s on the other side of the continent...

Hell spend the airfare. It would be worth it!

[SpaceBar]

What is that, page three or four of the playbook?

You are absolutely correct. It's a tactic. When faced with massive budget problems they don't trim bureaucracy or address bloated state wages and bennies, they release prisoners and shut down necessary infrastructure. Then they guilt the citizens for not allowing tax increases.

[Bean Counter]

The pending case for a federal Bailout of Kally-Fornea.

Otherwise, every City up and down the West Coast needs to watch out for vagrants suddenly showing up at the bus stations...

Developing...

[sergeantdave]

U.S. judges on Tuesday told California to prepare to release more than 40,000 of its 150,000 inmates

The answer, of course, is for the governor to move the judges chambers to prisons, so the judges can live with their fellow criminals. But that would reqiuire Shwarzenegger to buy a magnifying glasss and tweezers to find his schwantz - in daylight. I’m sure his butch wife is hiding his manhood in the thimble jar where he can’t find it

[Las Vegas Ron]

It is rather old, worst part is it still works, oy

[ken21]

a better idea would be to release the state government.