This law benefits only law enforcement labor unions. It is long past the time when it should have been amended, but it seems that most of the lawmakers are puppets for CCPOA. It was a huge lie from the very beginning and no other state arrests people for any minor reason whatsoever. For example, stealing a watermelon in a field where they lay rotting is a felony so it doesn't take long for young people especially to be convicted of three crimes that aren't really crimes. It is un-American to make up one-size-fits-all laws and steal billions of dollars from our human services and education budgets to pay for the revenge industry. We should not be seeking revenge or a way to overpay people with very little education to punish non-violent offenders especially at a cost of about $1 million each over their lifetime. It serves no social or penological interest. Yes on Prop 36 but the law needs to be thrown out altogether.
Jerry Brown is spending $7 billion on building new prisons that will cost billions more per year to operate. Please support the campaign, Liberals To Recall Jerry Brown, http://www.facebook.com/LiberalsToRe...
tschaeff, good comment, however it is not up to the prison guard union CCPOA whether releases take place. Three federal judges have ordered releases over two years of non violent inmates, most of whom shouldn't have been put in prison in the first place.
Our citizen's group, the UNION (United for No Injustice, Oppression or Neglect) worked night and day for a decade to get a law passed that would release the terminally ill and frail elderly who have families to take care of them. AB1539 was signed into law into 2007, but the California Department of Corrections is releasing no one under it.
The State profits from the human bondage industry and the right wingnuts and all those who feed off it do not want releases to take place. We could be putting the frail elderly, quadriplegics, those with Alzheimers, others who are terminally ill into nursing facilities who have no families. But noooooo. The lawmakers are put into power by law enforcement labor unions. They think it is ethical and moral to punish sick people, which only makes them much sicker.
This is a good point to focus upon because it represents billions in costs that are unnecessary. Some people can afford to care for their family members at home, which would be the right thing to do, but the State still says no, even though AB1539 was passed for this purpose.
The State breaks its own laws and for want of a funded, noisy, voting group to call them out on this, practices from the dark ages continue unabated.
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Prop 36 Supporters Say It's Time To Amend 'Three Strikes' Law
This law benefits only law enforcement labor unions. It is long past the time when it should have been amended, but it seems that most of the lawmakers are puppets for CCPOA. It was a huge lie from the very beginning and no other state arrests people for any minor reason whatsoever. For example, stealing a watermelon in a field where they lay rotting is a felony so it doesn't take long for young people especially to be convicted of three crimes that aren't really crimes. It is un-American to make up one-size-fits-all laws and steal billions of dollars from our human services and education budgets to pay for the revenge industry. We should not be seeking revenge or a way to overpay people with very little education to punish non-violent offenders especially at a cost of about $1 million each over their lifetime. It serves no social or penological interest. Yes on Prop 36 but the law needs to be thrown out altogether.
October 5, 2012 at 1:07 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Doctors Livid Over Medi-Cal Pay Cut
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November 1, 2011 at 11:01 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Release Older Inmates To Save Money?
tschaeff, good comment, however it is not up to the prison guard union CCPOA whether releases take place. Three federal judges have ordered releases over two years of non violent inmates, most of whom shouldn't have been put in prison in the first place.
Our citizen's group, the UNION (United for No Injustice, Oppression or Neglect) worked night and day for a decade to get a law passed that would release the terminally ill and frail elderly who have families to take care of them. AB1539 was signed into law into 2007, but the California Department of Corrections is releasing no one under it.
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The State profits from the human bondage industry and the right wingnuts and all those who feed off it do not want releases to take place. We could be putting the frail elderly, quadriplegics, those with Alzheimers, others who are terminally ill into nursing facilities who have no families. But noooooo. The lawmakers are put into power by law enforcement labor unions. They think it is ethical and moral to punish sick people, which only makes them much sicker.
This is a good point to focus upon because it represents billions in costs that are unnecessary. Some people can afford to care for their family members at home, which would be the right thing to do, but the State still says no, even though AB1539 was passed for this purpose.
The State breaks its own laws and for want of a funded, noisy, voting group to call them out on this, practices from the dark ages continue unabated.
Good work here!
B. Cayenne Bird
December 11, 2009 at 7:53 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )