Posted on 08/06/2009 9:41:43 PM PDT by Steelfish
AUGUST 7, 2009
California Scrambles to Prepare for Inmate Release
BOBBY WHITE and RYAN KNUTSON
California state and local officials, already reeling from budget cuts and public-safety layoffs, are struggling with a federal order to release about 40,000 inmates to reduce prison overcrowding and bracing for the impact on their communities.
State officials have said they will appeal the decision, but as a contingency are cobbling together proposals to comply with the order. At the same time, cash-strapped local governments in places such as Los Angeles and Fresno are grappling with how to monitor and support thousands of released inmates at a time of scaled-down police forces and underfunded social-services programs.
"This is just awful [since] the court's decision is coming at a time when local public-safety has been slashed drastically," said state Assemblyman Kurt Hagman, a Republican who is a member of the Assembly's Public Safety Committee. He dubbed the order "ludicrous."
The decision Tuesday by a federal judicial panel ordered California to reduce its prison population by more than 40,000 inmates from a total of about 160,000 over the next two years, to relieve overcrowding and improve medical care for inmates. The special three-judge panel gave the state 45 days to develop a plan to carry out the order, which caps the state prison population at 110,000, or 137.5% of capacity. The state's 33 prisons were designed to hold about 85,000 inmates.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown has said he plans to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The order comes just two weeks after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a budget deal that includes a $1.2 billion cut to the state prison system.
It is unclear how officials will execute the court's decision.
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lol, that’s awesome. :)
It seems to me that prison construction would be an ideal use of “stimulus” money.
Cheers my friend and best of luck on the search per your profile.
Going to bed, I never stay up this late. Us military guys go to bed early and get up early. ;)
Mike
The Republicans do. We're also responsible for the ammo shortage.
buiold tent prisons in the middle of nowhere and make them saw wood, pick up dead twigs in the forests to reduce the risk of forest fires. a 100,000 volt electric fence should keep them in.
March them up and down the highways picking up garbage, then bus them back to tent prison.
Pot hole repairs, building the mexican border fence, cleaning up all the garbage Mexicans are littering up the land with while sneaking across the border.
There are a thousand things they can do with all those prisoners besides letting them go. With any luck, half of them will run back to Mexico instead of picking up their own trash.
Lots of them are traitors trying to establish UN world governance laws those unelected elitist invent. They should be impeached off the bench for failing to do their job, which is upholding the constitution.
I wonder if this is why the LAPD Chief decided to retire now?
Don't they have a couple of big prisons up in Stretch's area? See? Every cloud has a silver lining.
I’ve got the perfect spot to build a nice, new prison. San Nicolas Island. It’s about 50 miles offshore from Los Angeles. No walls or fences needed. Put the first bunchin tents and use them for building the administative buildings and the guards quarters. Supplies and equipment could be barged from Los Angeles. And if anyone wants to escape....well, that would make a nice movie plot. It would be quite a swim.
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A fence around the state may be the only solution - and get Snake Pliskin warmed up!
Please no nully, thats too close for me and there isn't enough ammo available for me to stock extra.
The solution is simple. don’ comply and tell the Federal judges they have no cause to regulate California State Prisons.
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