i guess letting out those convicted of the lesser crimes is out of the question, they'll prolly all be murderers, rapists and robbers
Posted on 08/02/2013 3:28:36 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Friday to let California delay the release of thousands of inmates from state prisons to relieve crowding. In June, a lower court ordered California to release about 10,000 inmates — nearly 8 percent of all state prisoners — by the end of the year to improve to improve medical and mental health treatment. Gov. Jerry Brown last month asked the Supreme Court to delay the order, arguing that it would jeopardize public safety.
Justice Antonin Scalia, joined by Justice Samuel Alito, strongly dissented with the high court's 6-3 one-sentence order Friday, predicting a wave of murders and rapes in the streets of California. Justice Clarence Thomas also disagreed but didn't join Scalia's dissent.
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How about good luck all Americans? As if these murderers and rapists are going to stay in Cali? Doubt it.
And if a loved one is killed and/or raped by one of these animals can I sue the government? Yea. right.
Nope, they are going to stay. You never leave a place where the food in plentiful. California is a smorgasbord for criminals. And they are opening up the dessert bar.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely: a very apt description of today's SCOTUS.
I have posted this elsewhere that I have seen this story posted...
What part of the US Constitution defines crowded prisons as “cruel and unusual”? Many of those who will be released will return to conditions far worse.
And lets be REALLY honest - our military men (and women) endure much more “inhumane” conditions... who is filing a lawsuit to protect their “civil rights”???
No-one, because there are no rights violations.
How could this nation have so thoroughly screwed up the definitions of the language, even with the normal evolution of tongues?
What did the framers see and understand to be “cruel and unusual” in their day? The stocks, where people were sometimes tortured by the public for relatively small offenses.
People having millstones tied around their necks and thrown in to rivers.
People being drug to death behind horses.
And a variety of other means we would think of as torture - and for a variety of offenses that today might earn little more than a small fine or community service.
The framers of the Constitution knew the death penalty, and had no issues with it (for the most part) for not only murder, but for thieves, rapists, and a variety of other “serious” offenses.
How was the death penalty carried out back then? Certainly a far cry from today’s “sleepy drug, followed by a anesthetic that slows breathing, then a drug to stop the heart”.
What were prisons and jails like back then? Often literal “gruel” for meals - absolutely no A/C, no free education, no recreation, no cable TV... No fluffy private or semi-private cell (if there were a bunch of bad folks in lock-up - it got crowded.
Since when was prison EVER meant to be a vacation from your normally crappy life and environment?
Of course - if the huge population of illegal immigrants from Mexico were airlifted over downtown Mexico City and tossed out the back of the plane - the overcrowding problem would be solved (and cost less than the cost of hosing the huge number of illegals).
They should bus em all and drop them on the SCOTUS steps.
This isn’t going to go well.
i guess letting out those convicted of the lesser crimes is out of the question, they'll prolly all be murderers, rapists and robbers
I hear that Sheriff Joe has his Vacancy sign out. Put them in tents out by the Salton sea.
Just keep them in California. Good luck.
California has plenty of money. Jerry can just build some new prisons. Might be hard to pay the guards, but they could start a “Guard Draft” and let everyone have their turn.
The Supreme Court is beginning to look more like an arm of the current communists Administration every day. If we ever get back in power again we will have to impeach the corrupt judges and find some real Constitutionalists.
I foresee more George Zimmermans making news in CA.
Almost a third of inmates in federal prisons are ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
Immigrants are lawful inhabitants. These are illegal aliens. Don’t accede to the leftist language corruption.
I thought perhaps there were plenty of low-danger prisoners to release, like kids imprisoned for being caught with an ounce of marijuana. But according to the LA Times, this is not the case:
“...courts had calculated that even with medical and geriatric parole and increased time off for good behavior, California would have to release more than 4,000 additional inmates. Beard said the state can find only 1,205 inmates who committed nonviolent crimes, have a low risk of committing new crimes once out of prison, are not tied to a prison gang and have less than a year left to serve on their sentence.”
Read more at: http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-ff-california-develops-framework-for-prison-releases-20130718,0,5916809.story
Build a 30-ft wall around Detroit and turn it into a penal colony. Kalifornia could send their excess criminal population to Detroit.
Please don't move any to Florida. We have enough fruits and nuts of our own.
Leni
I say bus them to the neighborhood of the Supreme Court justices, and drop them off.
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