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2009-08-05 Home Front: Politix

Fed judges order California to spring 40,000 prisoners

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-08-05 05:38|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Holder was on the news last night talking about unspecified "incarceration alternatives." This is exactly the release plan Barry and Holder want instituted across the nation. These state political prisoners must be freed in order that total urban chaos can be achieved. All laws and enforcement measures must be federalized and centrally controlled to ensure fairness!

Posted by Besoeker 2009-08-05 06:10|| 2009-08-05 06:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, if you take away the death penalty, in form or function, you'll eventually fill beyond capacity. The judiciary and legal caste are just moving the death penalty to the broader community where the general citizenry will get no due process or appeal. Remember the state does not exist to provide security in your person, your family, or your property. You'll have to turn to other alternatives to find that.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-08-05 06:32|| 2009-08-05 06:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Judges are likely right. The California prison system is inhumane in many ways.

Then again, prison isn't supposed to be a picnic.

Fact is, we have lots of people in prison who don't need to be there, and we have lots of people on the street who should be locked up. Figuring out who is which is the problem.

A lot of non-violent offenders would do better in work camps. Or send them to Sheriff Joe for a couple months. But they don't need to be in prison long term. At the other end the violent offenders should be held until they're old and gray.

Posted by Steve White 2009-08-05 08:25|| 2009-08-05 08:25|| Front Page Top

#4 So -eh- what are the gun laws in CA like? my guess is that they will be the next target of Zero and friends.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-08-05 08:35|| 2009-08-05 08:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Is this the 9th Circus Court?

Posted by 3dc 2009-08-05 09:52|| 2009-08-05 09:52|| Front Page Top

#6 California should immediately (and cheaply) construct Joe Arpaio tent city prisons out in the desert, enough for 100,000 prisoners. By international law, military field conditions do not in any way violate human rights.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-08-05 10:22|| 2009-08-05 10:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Should be easy pickins for the MilTerrs, ala recruitment.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-08-05 10:32|| NA]">[NA] 2009-08-05 10:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Areas California missed potential budget savings.

Send the illegal aliens in prison back to wherever. There, prison overcrowding problem is solved with room to spare.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-08-05 10:45|| 2009-08-05 10:45|| Front Page Top

#9 California should immediately (and cheaply) construct Joe Arpaio tent city prisons out in the desert

Nice areas out east of Date City before you get to Ogilby.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2009-08-05 11:40|| 2009-08-05 11:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Good point, GB, except I don't think Mexico wants them.

Posted by Steve White 2009-08-05 12:26|| 2009-08-05 12:26|| Front Page Top

#11 Give the illegals a free truck ride to the border, (Military style convoy) march them across and shoot them if they return, fixes that problem.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-08-05 12:37|| 2009-08-05 12:37|| Front Page Top

#12 A lot of non-violent offenders would do better in work camps.

They'd have to have a filtering mechanism. Many non-violent offenders are like Al Capone - convicted of tax evasion because prosecutors couldn't make anything else stick.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2009-08-05 14:30|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2009-08-05 14:30|| Front Page Top

#13 "Tragically, California's inmates have long been denied even (a) minimal level of medical and mental health care, with consequences that have been serious, and often fatal. ... A significant number of inmates have died as a result."

Gee, I thought government-sponsored healthcare was inherently a good thing. At least these folks didn't have to endure the torment of being repeatedly put on hold by their HMO.

Posted by Matt 2009-08-05 17:14|| 2009-08-05 17:14|| Front Page Top

#14 More on the myth of "non-violent" offenders from NRO:

Shedding this many inmates even though some will end up in county and city lockups will inevitably let some bad criminals get back on the street, where they will commit more crimes. After all, very few people end up in prison without violent records about 60 percent of non-violent offenders have violent offenses on their rap sheets.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2009-08-05 17:33|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2009-08-05 17:33|| Front Page Top

#15 Note that the 60% are of people who have been previously been convicted of violent offenses - I'm sure in the remaining 40%, there are plenty of others who were charged but not convicted.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2009-08-05 17:37|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2009-08-05 17:37|| Front Page Top

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