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Judges tell California to cut prisoner count by 10,000
Reuters ^
| June 20, 2013
| by Alex Dobuzinskis
Posted on 06/20/2013 3:45:52 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A panel of federal judges ordered California on Thursday to ease overcrowding in state prisons by reducing the number of inmates by about 10,000 this year, and criticized what they described as foot-dragging in dealing with the matter.
California has been under court orders to reduce the population in its 33-prison system since 2009.
"Failure to take such steps or to report on such steps every two weeks shall constitute an act of contempt," the judges said in their ruling.
Don Specter, an attorney for the plaintiffs in the case, said the ruling would mean cutting the prison population to around 109,000 inmates from about 119,000 currently.
"The ruling is absolutely essential in order for prisoners to be safe and to get adequate healthcare," Specter said.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; borderwatch; illegalaliens; illegals; immigration; kelso
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Let them stay in the Blight House.
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posted on
06/20/2013 3:46:47 PM PDT
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Move them to Pelosi’s, Feinstein’s and Boxer’s neighborhoods. And Nostrildamus’s while you’re at it.
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posted on
06/20/2013 3:47:54 PM PDT
by
clintonh8r
("Europe was created by history. America was created by a philosophy." Baroness Thatcher)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
"The ruling is absolutely essential in order for prisoners to be safe and to get adequate healthcare..." Free health care! FREE! WWWHHHEEE!!!
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posted on
06/20/2013 3:48:12 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Religious faith in government is far crazier than religious faith in God.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I think they should let out all the innocent ones.
To find out who is, just ask them.
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posted on
06/20/2013 3:48:15 PM PDT
by
henkster
(The 0bama regime isn't a train wreck, it's a B 17 raid on the rail yard.)
To: clintonh8r
Fat chance. The Limousine Leftists never have to live next door to the problems they create.
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posted on
06/20/2013 3:48:44 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
"The ruling is absolutely essential in order for prisoners to be safe and to get adequate healthcare," Specter said.Oh my goodness. By all means, let's release them to their high crime hellholes and where they will get no healthcare at all except the ER after they get shot or stabbed.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Can they be replaced by the corrupt running state govenrment?
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posted on
06/20/2013 3:53:14 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Nice and the cost of having violent thugs roaming around is devastating to a community/society.
Then they tax businesses and the middle class to death, remove their right for self defense then throw sex offenders back out on the street to rape and kill. The ruling class lives high on the hog with our money behind they gated walls.
To: BenLurkin
The Limousine Leftists never have to live next door to the problems they create.
Of course not.
If that were the case, the borders would have been secured in 1985.
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posted on
06/20/2013 3:55:41 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
This is easy to do if those same judges will allow California to deport 10,000 of their criminals back to Mexico where they came from.
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posted on
06/20/2013 3:57:21 PM PDT
by
MeganC
(A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Deportation and a capital punishment day extravaganza.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
So they go out to the streets to commit crime and then can’t go back to prison because there’s no room.
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posted on
06/20/2013 4:15:50 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(If I Pi$$ed off just one liberal today my mission has been accomplished.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Attention Californians...stand by for a $hitstorm of break ins,car thefts,drug deals,rapes and murders.
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posted on
06/20/2013 4:16:44 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
To: clintonh8r
Perfect locations. They can make a tent city in Pelosi’s vineyards. Nostrildamus...just too funny :-)
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posted on
06/20/2013 4:17:46 PM PDT
by
SueRae
(It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Bus them to Hollywood as well. And Malibu beachfronts. That will go over well.
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posted on
06/20/2013 4:19:28 PM PDT
by
SueRae
(It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
It’s a real shame that the broader population cannot purchase firearms to protect themselves and their families from the soon to be roving criminals in CA.
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posted on
06/20/2013 4:21:59 PM PDT
by
RobertClark
(My shrink just killed himself - he blamed me in his note!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
If we can’t get Rubio and Scmucky Schumer to build a wall on the Mexican border maybe we can get them to build one on the border with California.
It is a toss up which one will be the biggest drain on American taxpayers in the mext decade.
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posted on
06/20/2013 4:24:17 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(Obama-Ville - Land of The Free Stuff, Home of the Enslaved)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Well, if we could start executing those on death row, that would help a lot...
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posted on
06/20/2013 4:25:55 PM PDT
by
CA Conservative
(Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
And if the Feds would deport the illegals currently in our prisons, that would make an ever bigger dent!
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posted on
06/20/2013 4:26:51 PM PDT
by
CA Conservative
(Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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