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| Justice Kennedy discusses the state of prisons in California, U.S. |
| By Charles Dharapak / , LA Times via Associated Press |
| Published: 02/04/2010 |
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Justice Kennedy laments the state of prisons in California, U.S. Speaking to L.A. lawyers, the Supreme Court jurist blasts the prison guard union's influence, calling it 'sick' but sidesteps questions about the ruling he wrote last month on campaign spending. Anthony Kennedy "The three-strikes law sponsor is the correctional officers' union and that is sick!" Supreme Court Justice Kennedy said of the California measure mandating life sentences for third-time criminal offenders. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy criticized California sentencing policies and crowded prisons Wednesday night, calling the influence that unionized prison guards had in passing the three-strikes law "sick." In an otherwise courtly and humorous address to the Los Angeles legal community, Kennedy expressed obvious dismay over the state of corrections and rehabilitation in the country. He said U.S. sentences are eight times longer than those issued by European courts. "California now has 185,000 people in prison at $32,500 a year" each, he said. He then urged voters and officials to compare that expense to what taxpayers spend per pupil in elementary schools. "The three-strikes law sponsor is the correctional officers' union and that is sick!" Kennedy said of the measure mandating life sentences for third-time criminal offenders. Read More. |
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Obama is not the most powerful man in the U.S. Justice Kennedy is, who happens to be the swing vote in the Supreme Court. He's right on the 3 strikes law which is one of the silliest things to come out in the last couple decades. Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to lock someone up for life where his third strike may have been for shoplifting. It needs to be repealed but the Californication politicians are too scared they won't get reelected.