Comments on: Bill to propel $12 billion prison construction project sent to governor with budget package

By: wilson

wilson — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:54:22 +0000

why should taxpayers pay for prisons when if they would just bring corporal punishment back we would not have the crime problems we have today. and we would not need all of these prisions.

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:19:14 +0000

Wayne is right, the communities have got to pick up the slack. This country is incarerating more young people than any other country in the world and for longer periods of time thanks to mandatory sentencing which only increased the revenues of “For Profit Prisons” that the Ivy League boys are promoting for their wealth. Check out http://www.dunwalke.com if you care to educate yourselves. This is a multi-billion dollar industry. I as a concerned employer, started researching and am appalled at what we have allowed in our country. We trusted the system to do what was right and it has totally abused our trust. 10,000 Minnesota businessmen hired a lobbyist to reduce recidivism so taxes could be lowered. If 10,000 Californians called the state capital and simply asked the Gov. to lower recidivism, it would catch his attention. Make the call.

By: wayne

wayne — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:30:50 +0000

I just paroled aug. 2008. during my incarceration i continued to ask for a rehab program.Of course i was denyed.Upon release i asked parole about rehab programs. I was imformed none was in place in my county.I think the money being spent on rehabilitation in prison in californin should be rederected to county run programs. Lets leave prison for what it was designed for, punishment.

By: Ann Rodriguez

Ann Rodriguez — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:14:53 +0000

I was wondering on what was the new changes of the the parole reform on the pre-release criteria. I was wondering if you can email me some information on what is the new change? I really appreciate it thank you.

By: sherri

sherri — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:23:46 +0000

stop playing with our prisoners constituational rights. we want our prisoners to be rehabillatated and not coming home with deadly dieases,because you can not make a desion on whats right. You know and I know that half of the men in there should not be there,but some should,keep the ones that need to be there.we would have more money for schools,if our systems was not so corrupt,now our fathers or mothers,sisters or brothers are in prison living like rats and dogs.where is there rights and where is the health care needed?send these prisoners home if you dont want to take care of them and let there family take care of them.

By: Mary Ratcliff

Mary Ratcliff — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:10:27 +0000

No need. Believe it or not, Gov. Schwarzenegger vetoed it.

Mary Ratcliff, editor

By: Ann Garrison

Ann Garrison — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:58:41 +0000

Oh Jesus, not again. I’m so tired of fighting this one. I don’t know what to do but post it around on the Net this time.

By: rich mckone

rich mckone — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:06:22 +0000

Who do you believe – our outstanding governor and legislators or the unelected, independent Legislative Analysist?

Our Governor and many legislators alerted us to a terrible and apparently sudden prison overcrowding problem. They repeatedly cautioned that prisons were “operating at over 200 percent of design capacity”, implying, but not exactly stating, a shortage of over 80,000 beds. They promptly passed AB 900 to fund construction of 40,000 more prison beds at a cost of $6.5 billion. Construction shouldn’t take more than four years. They labeled it prison reform and moved on to deal with other problems, like the budget deficit. Needless to say, correctional employee unions were very pleased.

The Legislative Analysist, (LAO) assessed AB 900 and reported a 16,600 prison bed shortage, relying on national correctional prison bed standards. No one even bothered commenting on the LAO’s ridiculous claim. The LAO even claims there is a permanent prison bed capacity of 156,500 beds. Based on that dubious claim, the prison bed shortage has declined to 8,500 beds as of November 30, 2008.

The LAO’s figures imply that prison overcrowding could be quickly eliminated without any construction in a couple months by simply increasing the percentage of contract beds from 4% to 9%.

Who do you believe?

By: Kima

Kima — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:01:32 +0000

Hi Rose. I just checked the Senate’s website and it shows that this bill, ABx1-10, was vetoed by Arnie on January 6th, 2009. So…what’s next? Does that mean it’s dead in the water (hopefully)? Also, do you have any more info on bill AB1x 8 that Arnie recently vetoed (that would have allowed less parole resrictions, etc.)? I have been following this pretty closely, along with the 3 judge panel and a possible prison population cap, but it seems that the media has kept things pretty quiet lately regarding prison and parole reform.