The ONLY result possible of these giveaways is to make running the prisons MUCH MORE costly.
...and that means that the state will be REQUIRED to release even more prisoners early (or simply not jail them), and more people will be KILLED, RAPED, ASSAULTED, ROBBED, or have their car door SCRATCHED.
A FUNCTIONAL Republican party would use the talking points above when discussing this issue. A non-functional Republican Party would simply say they want tax and budget cuts and not bring up specific consequences. We got the Dems on this one, IF we’re capable...
No wonder it always rains in summer, California.
30,00 prison guards? Wow. That probably doesn’t include federal, county and city guards in California. I wonder how many guards we have across this country because people can’t obey laws.
It only cost 4x's what they were told? Such a bargain at gov't prices! /s
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger worked to wrest back control of the prisons from the CCPOA.
Funny, to see some Freeper comments you'd think Arnold never tried to do, let alone actually do, anything good while in office. He tried to battle the public unions until the voters handed his head to him.
California pays more than twice as much per prisoner than any other state in the union, and the troika of lunatic judges that have taken over the prison system (including failed lawyer Clark Kelso) are demanding more, more, more. California IS BROKE!!!
Oh and did you know that prison guards get “walk time” in which they are paid for the time it takes to walk from their car to the door of the prison or the time clock, whichever it is? And they have a nice little side business that the state seems unable to stop because of this “walk time” in which they bring pay-as-you-go cell phones into the prison and sell them to the prisoners! That’s how Charlie Manson got a phone – and the gang-bangers at Corcoran can go right on running their gangs from inside the prison! The state can’t do anything about it because they’d have to screen the guards in a metal detector or do a pat-down, and that would cost more because it would add to the “walk time.” Sweet deal, huh? Imagine being allowed to bring in contraband to people you’re supposed to be guarding and no one can do anything. Estimates are it brought in another 1.5 million to guards in UNREPORTED income.