Plan to ease prison crowding unveiled CA

Source: Union Tribune

SACRAMENTO – Scrambling to avoid a court-ordered release of inmates, legislative leaders yesterday unveiled a $7.4 billion plan to ease severe prison overcrowding with 53,000 new beds and the transfer of up to 8,000 inmates to out-of-state prisons.

The bipartisan agreement contains increased rehabilitation programs, such as education and drug abuse treatment, and greater oversight of prison management troubled by its depleted ranks and questions about competence.
But the proposal, negotiated over several months and scheduled for a vote in the Legislature today, contains no provisions to ease overcrowding through parole or sentencing changes, which are politically controversial.

And a prison guard union that obtained a court order blocking earlier inmate transfers to other states opposes the plan in general, including provisions aimed at lifting the court order.

The Republican governor is “particularly proud” of the proposal for 6,000 beds in innovative re-entry facilities, up to 500 beds each, placed in local communities to house and rehabilitate soon-to-be released inmates and some parole violators.





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This begs a question. Who is making money off the half-way houses?

Stop putting people in jail and prison for every infraction of some dumb-ass law designed to get a few more votes out of some enraged voting bloc. Incarceration should be for dangerous criminals, not knuckleheads who try to pass a bad check or skip out on their child support. If they can find them well enough to jail them, why not put them to work making restitution, instead?

People are serving serious time for UN-dangerous "crimes". Take some (many) of those laws off the books and modify the rest.

We have more people behind bars than any other country in history. That's just wrong.

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My bad, I thought for a second that maybe in California they'd figure this out by now but no it's just "Hey let's buy some new beds."

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Bed = 6 x 10 prison cell.

The CPOA is alive and well, and Arnold is on his knees for them, just like every other governor this state has ever had.

RELEASE ALL NON-VIOLENT DRUG OFFENDERS, DIPSHITS!

release the non-violent offenders.

cheaper, too.