To my California friends I predicted this would happen when the prison doors were let open. Here is an excerpt from my article and the link: This story out of California is a cautionary one, especially because the budget problems affecting many states could prompt similar initiatives to release prisoners back on the streets. The California experience shows that such measures are usually accompanied by creating panels of “experts” to make the claim in the media that releasing criminals will not only save money but not endanger the public safety. The California judges, Thelton Henderson, Stephen Reinhardt and Lawrence Karlton, actually asserted in their 2009 opinion issued in the prison overcrowding lawsuits of Coleman v. Schwarzenegger and Plata v. Schwarzenegger (referred to as Coleman/Plata since the court consolidated the two lawsuits), that releasing thugs will make people safer. Before ordering the release of 40,000 convicted criminals from California prisons, the judges wrote in their 184 page opinion, “A reduction in the crowding of California’s prisons will have a significant positive effect on public safety…”[1] aim.org/aim-column/how-state-budget-battles-could-mean-more-criminals-back-on-the-streets/
Posted on: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 03:03:53 +0000
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