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...
Two words: Willie Horton. Talk about naively releasing evil people who go on to commit heinous crimes and rather than feeling shame, the dems will say "racist!" and the press will turn the story into "GOP fights to keep minorities in prison".
I say have the fight because most people will see through it, they don't want violent prisoners released, but the GOP is the "scared stupid" party, they are so scared of bad press that they do stupid things.