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California's 33 prisons now house 156,000 inmates, about twice the number the facilities were designed to hold. Attorneys for the inmates have asked the court to limit the prison population to 104,000, or 130 percent of design capacity. To reach that number, they are asking that 52,000 inmates be released over a two-year period.
"We are representing more than 150,000 individuals who are constantly dependent upon the governor and the Department of Corrections to meet their basic needs," said Donald Specter, executive director of the Prison Law Office. "For more than a decade, those basic needs have not been met."
Overcrowding is the primary cause of the unconstitutional conditions that have been found to exist in the California prisons," the court concluded.
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Originally posted by Muundoggie
I'll give you 10 to 1 that the crime rate will see a sudden surge as these people are released. Many, not all, will find it impossible to survive on the outside.
Originally posted by DuneKnight
plan a massive world-scale military attack against every drug cartel, and end this illegal drug thing once and for all.
Originally posted by tezzajw
Originally posted by DuneKnight
plan a massive world-scale military attack against every drug cartel, and end this illegal drug thing once and for all.
It won't work. Police, judges, lawyers, politicians and the military, as well as the Cocaine Importers Agency all have their kickbacks and direct involvement in the drug supply.
The only way to eliminate their power and control is to legalise the drugs and keep lots of people out of prison who don't belong there.
Originally posted by DuneKnight
dude if you just want to do drugs, just say so, you dont have to make a big commotion about it.
I can see the pint you are trying to make: basically you want it legalized and then taxed to the max making it unprofitable.
Originally posted by DuneKnight
plan a massive world-scale military attack against every drug cartel, and end this illegal drug thing once and for all.
Originally posted by DuneKnight
if we eliminate any area that grows that stuff there wont be a supply in the first place.
Originally posted by Old Knudsen
reply to post by tezzajw
They should be executing prisoners to cut costs and to stop crime instead of giving them another chance to molest, steal, rape and kill.
My overcrowding solution is better and I'll pull the switch/trigger.