Supreme Court issues release if thousands of Cali inmates...

[Anonymous]

Seriously, did that just happen. All you lawyers out there, what does this mean? They get to go free? Just walk out of prison regardless of serving their sentence? If they real ease enough to meet max capacity does that any time they want to brings new prisoner in they have to let another one go? Help me understand.

[Anonymous]

The courts determined, and the Supreme Court upheld that the system is unable to provide a minimum level of health and mental health care. This has been going on uncorrected for years, and the problem is that the prisons are over capacity and California is not building new ones. The system is designed to hold 80,000 people. It holds 140,000 inmates. The court order forces them to get down to 110,000 inmates.

So the Supreme Court upheld the lower court opinions.

A few points: First the state will probably petition for a period of time to reach the targets. Second, prisoners are released all the time in California due to overcrowding. Third, if they want to incarcerate more people, they can build more prisons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The courts determined, and the Supreme Court upheld that the system is unable to provide a minimum level of health and mental health care. This has been going on uncorrected for years, and the problem is that the prisons are over capacity and California is not building new ones. The system is designed to hold 80,000 people. It holds 140,000 inmates. The court order forces them to get down to 110,000 inmates.

So the Supreme Court upheld the lower court opinions.

A few points: First the state will probably petition for a period of time to reach the targets. Second, prisoners are released all the time in California due to overcrowding. Third, if they want to incarcerate more people, they can build more prisons.

Then why not just force the. To build more prisons.

[Anonymous]

In case you've been in a hole for the last three years, California's budget process is dysfunctional and the R's refuse to raise taxes at all. Forcing people to build prisons without actually paying them is called slave labor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The courts determined, and the Supreme Court upheld that the system is unable to provide a minimum level of health and mental health care. This has been going on uncorrected for years, and the problem is that the prisons are over capacity and California is not building new ones. The system is designed to hold 80,000 people. It holds 140,000 inmates. The court order forces them to get down to 110,000 inmates.

So the Supreme Court upheld the lower court opinions.

A few points: First the state will probably petition for a period of time to reach the targets. Second, prisoners are released all the time in California due to overcrowding. Third, if they want to incarcerate more people, they can build more prisons.

Then why not just force the. To build more prisons.

We are a long way past the point where s chain gang can throw up barracks and put up a fence and call that security. But if you want to trust convicts to build a sturdy prison, I hope it is in your neighborhood.