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| Supreme Court To Tackle CA Prisons |
| By recordnet.com |
| Published: 06/15/2010 |
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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's effort to block a court order that the state's overcrowded prisons reduce their population by about 46,000 inmates, or one-fourth of the overall prison population. The high court's intervention is a victory for California's governor and state prison officials, putting the judicial order on hold. California-based federal judges had determined that the prison population needed to shrink to secure reasonable health care for inmates. Though formally called a "prisoner release order," the judges' mandate could be met through a variety of means, including parole revisions and sentencing reform. Read More. |
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Let's hope good for society comes from this and that sentencing reforms and other changes will be made that will keep both the inmates and prison personnel safer. California locks up too many of its citizens for too long, and keeps many with the words “to-life" in their sentences, and who are not likely to commit new crime, locked up only for revenge. It makes no sense compassionately or economically. It also makes no sense when we release people without first requiring rehab, drug, and job training such as the programs Donovan prison proved help reduce new crime and prevent new victims. Turning ex-offenders out without some support in a world where employers will not hire them and landlords will not rent to them makes no sense. Of course, using the 3-strikes law that does not work as voters intended and locks up people for decades over a petty crime is bankrupting us and makes no sense either. Continually building new prisons and sending inmates to immoral for-profit prisons is not economically sustainable. It is upside down to reward for-profit prisons with more business, more employees, and bigger budgets when then fail to rehab inmates and they return to prison. Prisons should be rewarded when ex-offenders do not commit new crime, not the other way around. Of course, prisons should not be penalized for some mentally ill and certain others who will never become responsible citizens. We Californians should insist our politicians begin using common sense and reform our criminal justice and prison systems.