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| Three Strike Law Could Get Costly |
| By sacbee.com |
| Published: 03/03/2011 |
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Roney Nunez positioned and repositioned his wheelchair just so, reached down with his right hand and began scratching at the linoleum floor, focusing intensely on the task. Why was not apparent. Oblivious to the world outside, Nunez didn't gaze up at the half-dozen people gathered on the other side of the steel and hardened glass door to his cell, 4½ feet by 11 feet. "He doesn't know who he is, or where he is," Dr. Joseph Bick told me as he offered a glimpse into the complexities of the Vacaville state prison, the California Medical Facility, where he is chief of medicine. In his effort to erase California's $26.6 billion deficit, Gov. Jerry Brown ought to think about Roney Nunez. Unlike Brown's decision to cut state-issued tchotchkes, nothing about Nunez is simple. But until his situation is confronted, incarceration costs surely will rise. Nunez, 85, arrived at the California Medical Facility in 1996, sentenced to 25 years to life in prison under this state's "three-strikes" law. Read More. |
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