02-18-2009, 15:32
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California to release 58,000 Inmates
The below link is to a Reuters news clip about California's reluctant decision to release up to 58,000 inmates. Interesting, glad I don't live in CA. One of the inmates is complaining about health services, I wonder if he thinks it will be better after he is released.
http://www.yahoo.com/s/1032212
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http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/play...26713&src=news
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02-18-2009, 15:51
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Originally Posted by JihadJilson
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I guess we should start to worry about Charles Manson getting out  .
Perhaps making room for GITMO folks  .
Laws seem to have been increasingly rewritten, over the decades, to favor the criminal. LE has a hard enough job with the laws as written. With the prison system in CA near meltdown, the wild west may return.
The GITMO coment above was not a joke. CA could use the $ input to their purse.
This gives the term "financial bailout" a whole new meaning!
My $.02.
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02-18-2009, 16:45
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CO Governor has already offered and said Gitmo guests are coming.
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02-18-2009, 16:59
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they are probably just making room for all of us evil gun owners.......
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02-18-2009, 17:18
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This is just a part of the package of the state being BROKE....
1st the lay off the Prisoners (Let them out) then they layoff LEO's and that will get them back in the Black.....  Californication thinking in the state Capital.
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02-18-2009, 17:44
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This is just a part of the package of the state being BROKE....
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They just turned down a 1 billion dollar deal to drill offhsore from the state...
I wonder if they know where they can find sympathy. 
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02-18-2009, 18:49
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They just turned down a 1 billion dollar deal to drill offhsore from the state...
I wonder if they know where they can find sympathy. |
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02-18-2009, 18:56
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Originally Posted by Soft Target
CO Governor has already offered and said Gitmo guests are coming.
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Isn't there a semi-new federal ADMAX facility in Florence designed to give them more solitary sedate surroundings? If I recall correctly there are even a few terrorists already burning their home fires there as it is.
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02-18-2009, 19:09
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What are they thinking; with few jobs for the employable, they will release 58,000 of the chronically unemployed? Street crime should reach new levels of tolerance and understanding.... 58,000 of the physcially fit and stupid roaming the streets...Annie better get her gun!!!
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02-18-2009, 20:13
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Remember--all is not as it sometimes seems. In the Land of Unintended Consequences (California), for example, there are a lot of ffolkes in prison serving unnecessarily long terms for very minor offenses as a result of the voters passing the "Three Strikes" law. The law was intended to "get tough" on repeat serious crime offenders and as a deterrent---but LEOs, DAs, and Judges also saw it as a way to conveniently remove a great many 'irritants' from their communities...the result being a dramatic rise in the state's prison population and $$$. Now that the LUS is looking at a $42B (yes, B as in Billions) budget shortfall, they are reconsidering their earlier "get tough" zeal and the political bandwagon--being cheered on by a voting public who thinks those $$$ would be better spent assisting them with their insane mortgages and demand for more public works 'stimulus' projects--is heading off once again in another unforeseen direction. And so...round and round it goes...where it stops, nobody knows. And as to the old question of who's running this asylum...
FWIW--the CHP is still hiring...but a lot of those who are acceptable to be prison guards do not meet the standards of acceptability for the CHP. 
Richard's $.02 
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02-18-2009, 20:23
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Originally Posted by Penn
...Annie better get her gun!!!
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I see it as a good thing, and I live here. You are right, Penn. In the Rodney King riots, the lefties were desperate to get guns to protect themselves. Unfortunately for them, the laws that they supported prevented their immediate access. (Hmmm, no teary eyed emoticon? )
We're used to earthquakes out here and there seems to be one going on in Sacramento at the moment. If we named earthquakes this one would be called Maldonado! 
Pat
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02-18-2009, 21:54
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It is always amazing to hear how all these poor people are in prison for minor crimes. I have seen more child molesters get probation ie no prison time than I can count.
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Out on the 'Left' Coast, they put 'suspected' child molesters in prison for 8 years based on the LEO coerced testimony (and no tangible medical or any other evidence) of the children and the 'guilty until proven innocent' reporting of the MSM...and then release them with an apology and a hope they won't sue the state after the children--who are now teenagers--are mature enough to come forward and fess up to the fact that OBTW they weren't molested at all. And what of the LEOs and DAs? Go figure.
Maybe you should 'persuade' your child molesters to move to California where they can get what they deserve...whether they are guilty or not.
I'm staying in Texas where the three-plunger cocktail is still being served.
Richard's $.02
PS--If some SOB had touched one of my sons, I would have demanded a trial by a jury of my peers (all parents) to hear my explanation of why I killed that SOB!
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02-18-2009, 22:14
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The court system is so back up things get plead way down and no prison time for people that really need it.
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Great news - provided someone does what needs to be done while they are out.
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02-18-2009, 22:15
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Originally Posted by Richard
Out on the 'Left' Coast, they put 'suspected' child molesters in prison for 8 years based on the LEO coerced testimony (and no tangible medical or any other evidence) of the children and the 'guilty until proven innocent' reporting of the MSM...and then release them with an apology and a hope they won't sue the state after the children--who are now teenagers--are mature enough to come forward and fess up to the fact that OBTW they weren't molested at all. And what of the LEOs and DAs? Go figure.
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I know the case well. It was in my neighborhood. It took a local free "throw away" newspaper to pursue the truth, which was obvious to us from the get go.
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