Supreme Court orders California to release tens of thousands of prison inmates

[JohnnyReb]

"Obama's idea of job creation"...for lawyers and judges.

[CG6468]

EDITORIAL: Deport California’s illegal-alien convicts
Not everyone has the right to be in America
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By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The Washington Times

7:37 p.m., Tuesday, May 24, 2011
The Supreme Court on Monday endorsed a court order requiring California to cut its prison population by more than 30,000 inmates to improve overall health care.

If the U.S. Supreme Court says California has to create room in its prisons by releasing convicts, the least the federal government can do is send those who are illegal aliens back over the border. The message is simple: If you come to our country and don’t follow the rules, you’re outta here.

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of “Brown v. Plata” that overcrowding in California prisons constituted a violation of the Eight Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The court affirmed the judgment of a three-judge federal court that ordered the Golden State to release up to 46,000 of the state’s 140,000 inmates. The 5-4 decision was strongly contested, with dissenting Justice Samuel A. Alito warning, “The majority is gambling with the safety of the people of California.”

The state could mitigate the public danger posed by released prisoners with a little help from the feds. An estimated 19,000 of California’s convicts are illegal aliens, who cost the state approximately a billion dollars a year to incarcerate. In 2009, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested deporting illegals as a cost-saving measure. The state argued at the time that “These inmates are the federal government’s responsibility and California taxpayers shouldn’t be paying the bill.” The federal government, however, was not as forthcoming as it might have been, and the plan didn’t meet its potential. Given that the current choice may be between deporting convicted illegals or letting them roam free, the case for deportation is even stronger.

Washington Times Editorial

[thundley4]

The federal government, however, was not as forthcoming as it might have been, and the plan didn’t meet its potential. Given that the current choice may be between deporting convicted illegals or letting them roam free, the case for deportation is even stronger.

If California can't send the illegals back to Mexico and the feds won't do it, then maybe California should ship them to Washington DC.

[JohnnyReb]

If California can't send the illegals back to Mexico and the feds won't do it, then maybe California should ship them to Washington DC.

Call them "Freedom Riders" or "The 19,000 Man March on Washington" or "The California Bus Lift"

[CG6468]

Call them "Freedom Riders" or "The 19,000 Man March on Washington" or "The California Bus Lift"

It'd be easier to use them as landfill.

[namvet]

send em to an island. we got plenty. that's what the brits did. the island is now called Australia   

[Alpha Mare]

They've already  it up.

Computer Errors Free Over 1000 California Prisoners

It has been discovered that computer errors led to the mistaken release of hundreds of high-risk California prisoners.

Some 450 high-risk prisoners and over 1,000 state inmates with various offenses were freed as "unsupervised parolees" under a program created in January last year to ease overcrowding.

According to the inspector general, the computer system used in the program doesn't access an inmate's disciplinary record and lacks conviction files for nearly half of California's 16.4 million arrest records, according to LA Times.

Lieu told the Times, if the state can't properly identify which inmates qualify for an unsupervised parole program, "how can the public have confidence they can release 33,000 felons safely?"

According to inspector general spokeswoman Renee Hansen, there was neither an attempt to return any of the mistakenly-released offenders nor have them placed on supervised parole.

http://losangeles.ibtimes.com/articles/152873/20110526/computer-errors-free-over-1000-california-prisoners.htm

[Randy]

What's wrong with tents?  They seem to work in Arizona.

They work here too.